+(defvar log-edit-changelog-use-first nil)
+(defun log-edit-insert-changelog (&optional use-first)
+ "Insert a log message by looking at the ChangeLog.
+The idea is to write your ChangeLog entries first, and then use this
+command to commit your changes.
+
+To select default log text, we:
+- find the ChangeLog entries for the files to be checked in,
+- verify that the top entry in the ChangeLog is on the current date
+ and by the current user; if not, we don't provide any default text,
+- search the ChangeLog entry for paragraphs containing the names of
+ the files we're checking in, and finally
+- use those paragraphs as the log text.
+
+If the optional prefix arg USE-FIRST is given (via \\[universal-argument]),
+or if the command is repeated a second time in a row, use the first log entry
+regardless of user name or time."
+ (interactive "P")
+ (let ((log-edit-changelog-use-first
+ (or use-first (eq last-command 'log-edit-insert-changelog))))
+ (log-edit-insert-changelog-entries (log-edit-files)))
+ (log-edit-set-common-indentation)
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (when (looking-at "\\*\\s-+")
+ (forward-line 1)
+ (when (not (re-search-forward "^\\*\\s-+" nil t))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (skip-chars-forward "^():")
+ (skip-chars-forward ": ")
+ (delete-region (point-min) (point)))))
+