Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > >>> It is against the emacs-23 branch, because I could not check out the
  > >>> trunk today.
  > >> Applied, thanks.
  > > When applying changes by non-committers, should we use the --author
  > > option of commit?
  > 
  > Yes, that would be good.  We will even have to require it if/when we
  > decide to auto-generate the ChangeLog file.
  >
  > > If so, is that supported by VC?
  > 
  > I don't think so,

How should it work? We don't have any nice generic mechanism/UI for
doing VC backend specific things in the commit buffer.