Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[Robert Pluim]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> C-x 4 A doesnʼt work from a magit diff buffer that contains changes
>> for multiple files, it creates a ChangeLog entry for whichever file
>> entry point happens to be in.
>
> That's odd.  It sounds like `C-x 4 A` is not bound and it just falls
> back on `C-x 4 a`.  What does `C-h k C-x 4 A` say?

    C-x 4 a (translated from C-x 4 A) runs the command
    magit-add-change-log-entry-other-window (found in

> I suspect the problem is simply a missing binding in Magit's diff-mode
> (which would seem to indicate they don't derive from diff-mode, which
> would be sad).

I donʼt think that would be enough. Running
diff-add-change-log-entries-other-window manually from a magit diff
buffer produces zero changelog entries. Perhaps time to punt to the
magit folks.

Robert