bug#19045: 25.0.50; [PATCH] vc-git-print-log use --follow

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> > Please don't push anything to the release branch without John's or
> > mine explicit approval.  As things are, I'm very busy these days, and
> > didn't yet have time to review the patch thoroughly, so I'm not sure
> > I'm happy with its being pushed.
> 
> Sorry, will wait more time the next time.

Thanks in advance.

> >> +        (let ((inhibit-message t))
> >> +          (message "Running %s %s" command (vc-delistify squeezed)))
> >>  	(let (;; Since some functions need to parse the output
> >>  	      ;; from external commands, set LC_MESSAGES to C.
> >>  	      (process-environment (cons "LC_MESSAGES=C" process-environment))
> >
> > I don't understand why would we want to hard-code the fact that these
> > commands are not shown in the echo area.
> 
> I don't want to cause more flicker in the echo area when the full command
> gets overwritten immediately by the truncated command in the echo area. 

Would binding resize-mini-windows to nil instead fix that?  If it
would, then I think it's a better way, because it doesn't affect what
is being recorded in *Messages*.