re-implementing log-for-merge from Arch

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Dan Lipsitt wrote:
> What would it take to implement something like the log-for-merge
> command present in tla and baz? I found it to be a useful feature. For
> those of you not familiar with Bazaar 1 and Arch, it automatically
> creates a log message like this, which the user can then edit before
> commit:
> 
> """
> Summary: Merged from dan at harvard.edu--myarchive (patch 6-7)
> Keywords: merge
> 
> Patches applied:
> 
> * dan at harvard.edu--myarchive/myproject--mainline--1.1--patch-6
>   changes in low-level parallization code
> 
> * dan at harvard.edu--myarchive/myproject--mainline--1.1--patch-7
>   new parallelized version
> """
> 
> Or is there already a good way to get this info from bzr?
> 
> If this is a worthwhile project and it isn't too complicated, I may
> try to implement it as a plugin. However, I'm not sure where to begin.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan
> 
> 

Well, 'bzr status' gives a pretty good summary. It just doesn't include
the revision ids.

It probably wouldn't take a lot. But considering "bzr log --long"
already shows all of that (as a properly nested merge), do you really
need to write it again in the new commit message?

It seems a little redundant.

John
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