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[PATCH 0/1] Improve comment cycling in log-edit

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
Cc: 75355 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75355: [PATCH 1/1] Improve comment cycling in log-edit
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:28:29 +0200

> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
> Cc: 75355 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:29:34 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Sat,  4 Jan 2025 18:11:08 +0100
> >> From:  Jonas Bernoulli via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> >> 
> >> Save the current message before cycling to older messages, making it
> >> possible to cycle back to that initial message.
> >
> > Thanks, but can you provide some rationale for this?  Is the
> > assumption that users need to make several commits that all share the
> > same comment or something?
> 
> That is one use-case for the feature as it exists now, yes.  Messages
> are already automatically saved once the user either finished or aborts
> the commit.
> 
> These changes don't really affect that.  I consider this additional
> automatic saving a bugfix.  Without it, a user may start typing a new
> message, decide to use a recent message instead, navigate to it but then
> change their mind about that, and then they would not be able to go back
> to the new message they had already started typing, because it was
> discarded when they moved a way from it.  By saving the new message when
> we move away from it, we make it possible to navigate back to it.

What do you mean by "move away" and "navigate", in the context of
log-edit?

> By additionally defining log-edit-save-comment as a command we gain the
> ability to save the message at random point.  This could, for example,
> be useful if we have to use very similar messages in different commits,
> potentially across multiple repositories.

Is this a frequent use case?  Why would the same log message be used
for different commits?

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