Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Asking for passphrase early

[Herve Quiroz]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:22:05PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Regardless, I'd really like the changelog message to not be deleted if
> the commit fails for *any* reason.
> 
> Actually, what if a commit would always load the same file (say,
> '++log' under the working copy's root) into the editor. First,
> retrying a failed commit will automatically re-use the last log
> message, which usually still applies. Second, this encourages writing
> the log while you change the code rather than after the fact at commit
> time.

I agree with that. Probably one of the only pluses from TLA: the ability
to write ChangeLogs ahead of commit.

However, I would prefer to have it in the /MT directory and with no '+'
or any other non-standard characters in its filename (not to reproduce
the same user-unfriendlyness as TLA).

Herve