Subject: Re: bug#17884: 24.3.92; `vc-next-action' discards commit message

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:33:28 -0400

I think this is due to:

2013-11-28  Stefan Monnier  <[email-masked]>

   * vc/vc-dispatcher.el (vc-log-edit): Setup the Summary&Author headers.

log-edit with non-nil SETUP first erases the log buffer, thus defeating
the purpose of log-edit-empty-buffer-p.