[darcs-users] [BUG] spurious DESCRIPTION mark in log messages

[Didier Verna]

       Hi !

I wanted to signal a bug in Darcs 1.0.9 (at least), in an admitedly
peculiar situation. When you "darcs record --logfile foobar" and the
logfile in question does *not* end with a newline character, you get
spurious marks from an interactive log message session.

For instance, if my logfile contains

| Some built-in themes
| 
|   patcher.el: Provide built-in themes
|         for PRCS, CVS, SVN and Darcs.   <------- end here. No \n.


Then, the recorded log is the following, as displayed by "darcs changes":

| Tue Dec 25 18:35:50 CET 2007  didier at lrde.epita.fr
|   * Some built-in themes
| 
|   patcher.el: Provide built-in themes
|         for PRCS, CVS, SVN and Darcs.***END OF DESCRIPTION***
| 
|   Place the long patch description above the ***END OF DESCRIPTION*** marker.
|   The first line of this file will be the patch name.
| 
| 
|   This patch contains the following changes:
| 
|   M ./lisp/ChangeLog +5
|   M ./lisp/patcher.el -1 +24

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