Re: bug#881: patch for bug #881

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Óscar Fuentes writes:

 > Maybe something like
 > 
 > ##--author="John Doe <address@hidden>"
 > <<rest of commit message here>>

That's one possibility.

Another would be a vc-commit-mode (or vc-commit-minor-mode?) which
would provide a keymap you could use to either specify individual
commit options (--amend comes immediately to mind) or enter a dialog.

The advantage to doing this would be that the commit mode could use
history (applying several commits from the same author, for example).

In both cases it would be nice to have hooks to scarf author (and
maybe commit message) out of a ChangeLog, or mail headers for that
matter.