Doc fixes related to vc-initial-comment.

* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Registering): Remove vc-initial-comment. 

* lisp/vc/vc.el (vc-initial-comment): Mark as obsolete.

* lisp/ChangeLog.15: Fix old entry.

* etc/NEWS: Mention this.

Fixes: debbugs:9745

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 21f52e8ca03..0562f2f2fa0 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-10-18  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * vc/vc.el (vc-initial-comment): Mark as obsolete.  (Bug#9745)
+
 2011-10-18  Chong Yidong  <cyd@gnu.org>
 
         * faces.el (cursor): Doc fix.
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog.15 b/lisp/ChangeLog.15
index 2acf847cddc..9cb24baeb1f 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog.15
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog.15
@@ -22676,7 +22676,7 @@
         (vc-next-action, vc-transfer-file, vc-rename-file): Also pass the
         backend when calling vc-mode-line.
         (vc-register): Do not create a closure for calling the vc register
-        function, call it directly.
+        function, call it directly.  No longer obey vc-initial-comment.
 
 2009-06-23  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@ics.uci.edu>
 
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc.el b/lisp/vc/vc.el
index 62536fd94be..cdc4f155083 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc.el
@@ -675,6 +675,8 @@
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'vc)
 
+(make-obsolete-variable 'vc-initial-comment "it has no effect." "23.2")
+
 (defcustom vc-default-init-revision "1.1"
   "A string used as the default revision number when a new file is registered.
 This can be overridden by giving a prefix argument to \\[vc-register].  This