Re: Writing GNU Guix commit messages

[Zelphir Kaltstahl]

Hi Ricardo!

Thanks for your reply!

I am using Emacs and Magit, but not yet Yasnippet. Is the snippet for Yasnippet
loaded from the source code of Guix automatically? I imagine I have to somehow
add this snippet first, before I can use it. Or perhaps there is some special
yasnippet file, which yasnippet recognizes and then it completes from that?

About etc/committer.scm: I assume, that I would run this using "guile
etc/committer.scm". Is that the correct way to go?

Best regards,
Zelphir

On 7/26/21 12:03 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> writes:
>
>> I also remember it being mentioned, that there is some
>> tools distributed with GNU Guix, that is supposed to help with that.
>
> If you use Emacs and Magit you can use the “update” or “add” snippets with
> Yasnippet, i.e. within the commit message window opened by magit just type
> “add” and hit TAB to expand the snippet.
>
> You can also use etc/committer.scm, which is part of the source checkout.  It
> was written to help with mass-upgrades of CRAN packages; it will not do the
> right thing in all cases.  Notably, it has some problems separating
> consecutive package additions.
>
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