Pieter Praet <pie...@praet.org> writes:
> 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
Thanks Pieter. Your instructions cut through a lot of the complexity.
All the best,
Tom
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Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
