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Author larry
Recipients brett.cannon, dstufft, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, larry, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, sbt, terry.reedy, tshepang, zach.ware
Date 2015-09-30.20:20:57
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I don't agree that in all cases the Misc/NEWS entry and the checkin comment must be wholly different.  While I concur that that's called for now and again, I believe this to be rare.  Most checkins are small changes, and a single-line summary for both Misc/NEWS and the first line of the checkin comment will suffice.

However, clearly the tool should *support* making them wholly separate.  But that's easy to support.  pyci now supports a "-n" or "--newsonly" flag, which instructs it to only add the Misc/NEWS item and to not check in.  This is presumably also nicer for folks used to shell-integrated hg tools (TortoiseHG etc).

I think it's important that this *not* be the default behavior, as it's going to be hard enough to get the core dev community to adopt this tool, and I would prefer it make the experience nicer rather than clunkier.
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2015-09-30 20:20:58larrysetrecipients: + larry, lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, ncoghlan, pitrou, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, tshepang, sbt, zach.ware, dstufft
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