Re: vc-dwim and git

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Paul Eggert on 10/10/2007 12:46 AM:
>> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Thanks for doing this.  But please remember to separate the summary line
>>> from the rest of the details in the git commit text.
>>
>> This is starting to get a bit off-topic, but I am finding these
>> from-my-point-of-view oddball restrictions about what goes into
>> ChangeLog entries fairly onerous.  I am just using vc-dwim, which
>> generates commit text automatically from the ChangeLog.  This works in
>> other projects; why isn't it working here?
>
> Jim, it looks like vc-dwim could use an improvement when targeting git.
> There are enough places in git tools that expect the summary line to be
> separated by a blank line from the rest of the commit message; otherwise
> the entire ChangeLog entry gets concatenated into a single long commit
> summary, which gets rather hard to read when browsing git history.

Ha!  That'd been annoying me, too, but I'd just been using vc-dwim --c,
and then immediately afterwards would run "cg-commit --amend -e" to insert
the blank line.

Thanks to your prod, I've fixed it.