bug#4760: 23.1.50; C-x v a gone wild.

[Jan Djärv]

Dan Nicolaescu skrev:
> jan.h.d@swipnet.se.?= (Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv) writes:
>
>   > Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
>   > usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>   > 
>   > Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.
>   > 
>   > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
>   > and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>   > 
>   > C-x v a computes change log entries for a very long time.
>   > Then it inserts an entry with lot of old stuff included.
>   > It doesn't respect user-full-name or user-mail-address.
>   > The change isn't mentioned in NEWS, is there a switch to get back the
>   > old C-x v a?
>
> AFAICT nothing has changed in this area for a long time.
>
> If you could send some step by step instructions on how to reproduce
> this with an old version that works the way you expect, it might not be
> too hard to find what changed...
> (I've never used this command, so I don't know what to expect of it).

Never mind, I was looking at the wrong command. :-(
I got to get out more, sorry for the noise.

        Jan D.