On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:50 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> Normally I can do this by exiting without saving, or saving and closing my editor without
> writing anything.
>
> However, when the commit has been seeded, neither of these works, the only way to do
> it is to delete all the text in the file, then save that and exit. Doing anything else results in
> the commit happening anyway, so I have to uncommit (and sometimes don't notice until later)
>
> Jelmer's suggestion was to have bzr prompt if the commit message is unchanged from the
> seeded one.
That won't work well if bzr can't prompt (it can run EDITOR under e.g. X
even if bzr has no stdin).
Perhaps having a line
**** DELETE THIS LINE to use the suggested commit message ****
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:50 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> Normally I can do this by exiting without saving, or saving and closing my editor without
> writing anything.
>
> However, when the commit has been seeded, neither of these works, the only way to do
> it is to delete all the text in the file, then save that and exit. Doing anything else results in
> the commit happening anyway, so I have to uncommit (and sometimes don't notice until later)
>
> Jelmer's suggestion was to have bzr prompt if the commit message is unchanged from the
> seeded one.
That won't work well if bzr can't prompt (it can run EDITOR under e.g. X
even if bzr has no stdin).
Perhaps having a line
**** DELETE THIS LINE to use the suggested commit message ****
?
-Rob