GNU bug report logs - #9745
Restore vc-initial-comment functionality for VCS that support it

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Message #8 received at 9745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: Chris Carlson <cwcarlson <at> cox.net>
Cc: 9745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9745: 23.3; vc-register does not prompt for initial comment
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:15:32 -0400

Chris Carlson <cwcarlson <at> cox.net> writes:

> This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
> not to your local site managers!
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.
>
> Your report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org mailing list
> and the gnu.emacs.bug news group, and at http://debbugs.gnu.org.
>
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
> a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':
>
> Performing a vc-register never prompts for an initial comment.  The
> variable vc-initial-comment is defined in vc.el, but it is never
> referenced or used.
>
> Previous versions of Emacs prompted for an initial comment by default,
> but that feature seems to have gotten lost.

Modern VCS do not have an initial message when adding a file (just RCS
did that -- maybe SCCS too), so that feature has been removed. 

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