I was intending to write about the new commit template stuff too. Having the commit message in the new location has significantly increased the effort and time which it take me to make a new commit. I considered downgrading back to 0.47 just to avoid it. I really feel that I shouldn't have to memorise the fact that the 'Changelog:' token is on the twelfth line. In addition, the new white-space handling is a pain. I sometimes like to use commit messages of the form
- item1 - item2 but the parser swallows any initial whitespace so I can't indent the first line. I also feel the template bombards me with information that I already know or don't really care about when all I want to do is type a commit message. I don't need to read a help message on how to edit the changelog and other fields every time I commit and I can't imagine what anyone might learn from the parent revision or current revision hashes that they didn't know before they decided to commit. I'm all for displaying the author, date and branch in the footer as these are user-editable modifiable values that they could conceivably be wrong. In particular, I've often committed to the wrong branch without realising it but I feel adding a second mechanism to edit these just duplicates functionality and adds the complexity of a parser. I suspect most monotone users are reasonably sophisticated people who don't need a meta-interface to edit values they could already have specified on the command line though others may disagree. Francis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
