On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:11:36 -1000, t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) wrote:
> [...]
> I tried to follow Bastien's suggestion about adding a change log to the
> commit message, but ended up with something that looks different than
> his example. I'm not sure why--perhaps Bastien is not working in magit,
> so his instructions apply to some other context?
> [...]
Bastien was referring to `add-change-log-entry{,-other-window}', which is
part of Emacs [1], and is mainly intended to add entries to a dedicated
ChangeLog file (when this file isn't present, it'll open a new buffer
for the entry). While it *does* most definitely produce properly formatted
entries when called with point on a diff hunk, it always requires the extra
step of yanking the entry into your commit message buffer.
When using Magit (which I highly recommend) however, you can add properly
formatted entries *much* faster by positioning point on a (staged) diff
hunk in the status buffer, and calling `magit-add-log' (bound to 'C') [2].
If you don't already have a commit buffer ('*magit-edit-log*'), it will
create one for you, so you don't even need to call `magit-log-edit'
(bound to 'c') in advance anymore. :)
Peace
--
Pieter
[1] [[info:emacs#Change Log]]
[2] [[info:magit#Staging and Committing]]
