From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38044: 27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a specific vc commit Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:19:03 +0200 Message-ID: <837e3tx9s8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ftj5at1q.fsf@gnus.org> <87r22phsoj.fsf@gmx.net> <87bltslnpo.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87d0dvmqu8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <590e595e-8220-1c7e-bd4a-b2eb0968e289@yandex.ru> <87r226xl8m.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <24c56bca-8d7d-3a20-aeef-5d11f8a075e6@yandex.ru> <87pnhquo4k.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <6087186e-a444-0aac-e87d-596d2e36f0ce@yandex.ru> <877e3wub09.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <5ce7d4f0-3884-fd27-09dc-c38f01a19958@yandex.ru> <83zhgr26c3.fsf@gnu.org> <87blt7qxhz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <837e3v1aae.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2warzv3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83r221xoll.fsf@gnu.org> <83a78pxenu.fsf@gnu.org> <215302ff-8252-1f6c-5f60-aaba01cd615f@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="168651"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net, 38044@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 21:20:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iXswF-000hlH-UM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:20:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45682 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXswE-0006T5-KY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsvu-0006QG-MH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsvt-0008Iq-Jg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsvt-0008Hw-DB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsvt-0001fW-6Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:20:05 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:20:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38044 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38044-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38044.15743675456340 (code B ref 38044); Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38044) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Nov 2019 20:19:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53364 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsuu-0001eC-S3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60590) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsuo-0001de-VM for 38044@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:19:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38057) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsui-0006kU-3W; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1558 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iXsuh-0002sC-Fg; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:18:51 -0500 In-reply-to: <215302ff-8252-1f6c-5f60-aaba01cd615f@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:08:49 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:172155 Archived-At: > Cc: juri@linkov.net, larsi@gnus.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net, > 38044@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:08:49 +0200 > > "As I said before", when a revision is created, we fill in a number of > different fields, most importantly, the commit message. That's in every > VCS except some ancient ones. So to show a revision means to show all > that stuff. Here's an alternative proposal. It seems like almost all VCS backends we support provide a variant of a "log" command that shows the diffs together with the usual meta-data shown by "log". Only RCS and CVS don't have such an option of "log", all the rest do (most of them via "log -p"). So we could make this a subcommand of vc-log, more accurately vc-print-root-log, such that "C-u C-u C-x v L" will prompt for a revision ID, and display the information produced by such a "log -p" command (and fall back to displaying just the diffs for RCS and CVS). Does this sound better?