The problem is that not necessarily stastus changes are done in one commit, there is a different granularity in the two. This is the reason why some projects that were using commit message extraction systems are now also using a status file.
where is the problem?
do one commit without the magic words and one with them. not *all* changes have to go into the status file.
IMHO it would be a great thing to have...
BTW, could committers please also add the bug name to the commit message?
"Log: Apply patch for bug 29951" doesn't say anything to me when reading commit messages.
..this would be another thing that would benefit from that ;-)
cheers -- Torsten
