Re: vc-next-action RCS vs hg: copies the entry of ChangeLog

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/19/2015 01:45 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>     > hg log -v.
>
>
> No, this does not display the content of the ChangeLog!!!

Right. It shows the full contents of commit messages. Which should have 
ChangeLog entries in them, if you committed from inside Emacs, using 
vc-next-action.

> Let me try to resume.
>
> HG
>      -  Edit a file and enter a comment "CHLcomment" into the ChangeLog
>
>      -  From the command line: hg commit -m "test msg"
>
>      -  From the command line: hg log -v
>
> *Only* the comment "test msg" is displayed

Indeed.

> Now I use Emacs.
>
> GIT
> ...
> HG
>      -  Edit a file and enter a comment "CHLcommentEmacs" into the ChangeLog
>
>      -  vc-next-action:  "test msgEmacs"
>
>      -  vc-print-log: only    "test msgEmacs" is displayed

Because, like I explained in this very thread, vc-hg-print-log doesn't 
use the '-v' argument when calling 'hg log'.

>      -       from the command line hg log only shows  "test msgEmacs"

Call 'hg log -v' at this step.

> So it seems the culprit is Emacs, when it commits using git is also
> inserts part of the ChangeLog, otherwise I don't understand the
> different behavior of
>
>   git log
>
>  From the command line.

'git log' doesn't need '-v'.