Re: [Monotone-devel] 0.48 rants

[J Decker]

Personally I always do my commits with   ...  -m "my message" ...  so
I doubt this even affects me in the least.

Though, I do concur with the vein of complaints, all other revisioning
control allow (expect?) that additional comments are put at the top of
the file.  How do you specify the cursor position when using
notepad.exe?

I haven't even seen a changelog example, I'd assume that it mostly
starts with MTN: Author: <Some author text> etc... these should be
pretty easy to identify in any location, and I doubt that the
exactness of 'must be on 10th line' or 'must be after X and before ZZ'
would really be required....



On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Aaron W. Hsu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> With all the negative responses regarding the new changelog editor, I
> just thought I would weigh in with something a little more positive. I
> actually do like the changes, on a whole, and think that we shouldn't
> just revert to the old behavior.
>
> I did watch the discussion that went on when this feature went in, and I
> mostly agreed with how things were going, so I did not comment.
>
> I like that we have more changeable fields. The more the better in my
> mind. When I get something in a text editor, I like to think that
> whatever I will change will have some effect. I like that I can modify
> dates, branches, authors, and so forth. The problem with where to enter
> the changelog message really doesn't bother me so much, because we can
> always use editor's positioning arguments to put the cursor in the
> "right place" to start, and even without, we can allow for them to enter
> things at the top too.
>
> Actually, the "just start typing" methodology isn't really something I'm
> used to in most other programs. When I work with email for example, and
> I'm responding to a message in particular, I don't start typing at the
> top except to put a little header in, at most. So this doesn't really
> bother me.
>
> I do like that the formatting for these types of displays was
> normalized. We could get rid of some redundant information, which
> wouldn't be a bad thing, but I do like that I can "preview" my commit in
> a sense.
>
> As a question, can I alter what is committed through the changelog
> editor? At the moment, it does not seem like I can. That is one feature
> I would like. Normally, my workflow goes something like: status to see
> what has changed; diff to see those individual changes; a series of
> commits to commit the pieces in the way that I want. For those last
> pieces, it would be nice if I could just type 'mtn commit' and then edit
> my message to select what will be committed and what will not, and to
> what branch, and so forth. I like the idea of doing this in my editor.
> AT the moment, when I tried to do this, it didn't seem to work, and gave
> me some hoohah about the commit failing.
>
> So, overall, I'm happy with this change, and while we could make some
> adjustments to it, I do think that there is a great deal of positive
> about this new changelog editor that I would like to keep around.
>
>  Aaron W. Hsu
>
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