From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: Morgan.J.Smith@outlook.com, rpluim@gmail.com,
64055@debbugs.gnu.org, dmitry@gutov.dev
Subject: bug#64055: [WIP Patch] Enable editing commit messages - vc-git-modify-change-comment
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:09:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bjzfjofn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plnvtk88.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:29:59 +0800)
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: 64055@debbugs.gnu.org, Morgan.J.Smith@outlook.com, rpluim@gmail.com,
> dmitry@gutov.dev
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:29:59 +0800
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sun 20 Oct 2024 at 07:58am +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > It is this difference between Git and the rest that I don't yet see,
> > and you didn't explain it, just stated its existence. Why is the
> > method necessary for Git, but not for other VCSes? they all produce
> > similar displays of log messages, complete with Author, Date, etc.,
> > and so the difficulties of extracting just the change log message
> > should affect all of them, no?
>
> Ah, right.
>
> The difference is that with Git you can use variables like
> vc-git-log-switches and vc-git-shortlog-switches to radically change the
> log output. We can't realistically deal with all the possibilities from
> Lisp.
>
> Whereas, so far as I understand, such customisation of the output is not
> available with the older VCS.
I see vc-hg-log-switches and vc-bzr-log-switches, so I don't think I
understand why you say Git is special here. What did I miss?
In any case, the reason for having a backend method should be
explained in the comments.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-20 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-13 22:59 bug#64055: [WIP Patch] Enable editing commit messages - vc-git-modify-change-comment Morgan Smith
2023-06-14 8:00 ` Robert Pluim
2023-06-14 11:41 ` Morgan Smith
2023-06-14 13:13 ` Robert Pluim
2023-06-14 13:54 ` Morgan Smith
2023-06-14 15:30 ` Robert Pluim
2024-10-01 2:38 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-01 19:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-02 0:01 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-02 23:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-10 2:39 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-10 2:48 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-17 13:27 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-18 5:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-18 6:20 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-18 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-18 9:30 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-18 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 0:56 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 4:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 5:29 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-10-20 7:18 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 8:42 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-18 0:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-18 4:50 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 0:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-20 0:58 ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-17 2:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-01 2:37 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-01 13:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-10 2:45 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-10 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10 6:23 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-10 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10 7:46 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-18 9:26 ` bug#64055: Implementation of modifying VC change comments for Git Sean Whitton
2024-10-19 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 5:19 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 8:59 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 9:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 9:25 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 9:46 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 13:11 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-20 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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