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Bug 335177

Summary: Commit message is "<Click here to enter..."> when an empty template is used
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Tomasz Zarna <tomasz.zarna>
Component: CVSAssignee: platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert
Version: 3.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Tomasz Zarna CLA 2011-01-24 06:48:08 EST 
I20110118-0800, but reproducible on I20110104-0800 as well

1. Go to Team > CVS > Comment Templates in Preferences, you can go there directly from the commit dialog clicking on the link below comment area
2. Create a new, empty template: do not enter anything when "Enter Comment Template" dialog show up, just press Ok
3. Modify a file and do Team > Commit
4. On the "Commit Files" dialog. choose the newly created template from the combo below comment area. It will be visible in the list as "Template:".
5. Press Finish
=> You're not asked if you want to commit with an empty message, but I guess this is fine because you've explicitly choose a blank template
=> The problem is that the comment went with "<Click here to enter a commit comment>" message

At first I thought this has something to do with bug 334756 or bug bug 333812, but it turned out it's not a regression introduced by any of these two. It has been there for a while.
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-14 03:32:58 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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