Re: [Monotone-devel] changelog editor issues

[Julio Merino]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:

> The only task remaining on the RoadMap [1] for 0.99 is the changelog
> editor issues.
> 
> I've read thru the email thread [2]. There is overwhelming support for
> moving the changelog comment to the top, possibly with a small header.
> 
> Francis Russell suggested a format [3] that several other people
> seconded:
> 
> "
> 
> *** MODIFY OR REMOVE THIS LINE TO CANCEL THE COMMIT ***
[...]

Yes please.  The changes in the commit template in 0.48 were (and still are 
even after using mtn for a while) pretty annoying.

> There was discussion of whitespace trimming; with this format, only
> trailing blank lines need to be trimmed from the commit comment.

+1

> There was a suggestion that the signing key could be different from the
> author; this is possible on the command line, but not in this editor
> format.
> 
> There was a suggestion to allow editing the changelist section, to
> exclude files from commit (similar to the --exclude command line
> option). That is complicated; let's leave that for later, or at least in
> a separate discussion.
> 
> I propose that we adopt this format, with the addition of a 'key: '
> line under the 'Author: ' line; any objections?

Not from me!