Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> It is against the emacs-23 branch, because I could not check out the
>>>> trunk today.
>>> Applied, thanks.
>> When applying changes by non-committers, should we use the --author
>> option of commit?
>
> Yes, that would be good.  We will even have to require it if/when we
> decide to auto-generate the ChangeLog file.
>
>> If so, is that supported by VC?
>
> I don't think so,

I don't think we should require --author until VC supports it.
It's a major inconvenience.