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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: 57807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:59:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o7vfpzya.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leqk1day.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (Sean Whitton's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:29:57 -0700")

>>>>>> Is this equivalent to `M-& git log origin/scratch/posix-spawn 4b2ca6bfc0`,
>>>>>> then enabling vc-git-log-view-mode in the output buffer?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not, because vc-git-log-view-mode requires you pass four or five
>>>>> options to git-log to get output it can properly display.  That
>>>>> knowledge is locked up in vc-git.el right now.
>>>>
>>>> This part is clear, but I also wanted to know what git command
>>>> corresponds to this feature.  Is it just `git log` with two
>>>> branch names on the command line?  What additional options
>>>> are required?  Maybe `--graph --oneline`?  Also I see that
>>>> git documentation mentions `--branches[=<pattern>]`.
>>>
>>> It's something along these lines:
>>>
>>> git log -100 --graph --decorate --date=short \
>>>     --pretty="tformat:%d%h..: %an %ad %s" --abbrev-commit \
>>>     BRANCH1 BRANCH2
>>
>> This is what I proposed a long ago, maybe it makes sense here.
>> After invoking a vc command with a prefix argument it could pop up
>> the minibuffer with the command line that you can edit to add or delete
>> more arguments for the git command.  So e.g. after 'C-u C-x v b l BRANCH1 RET'
>> it will insert in the minibuffer the default command `git log ... BRANCH1`,
>> where you can add BRANCH2 and modify any other option.  Then it runs
>> this command and displays the output in the vc-git-log-view-mode buffer.
>
> That would be enough for me.  vc-push already works that way.  Shall I
> look into preparing a patch?

Yes, please try to prepare a patch, preferably without changing the
established backend API, maybe by using a global variable that later
could be reused to confirm and edit other commands.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-16  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-14 17:19 bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches Sean Whitton
2022-09-14 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 22:42   ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15  5:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 16:18       ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15 16:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 22:29           ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-14 19:17 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-14 22:44   ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15  6:59     ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-15 16:15       ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15 17:27         ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-15 22:29           ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-16  6:59             ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2022-09-18 21:48               ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-19  6:42                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-20 22:54                   ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-21 18:52                     ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-21 19:39                       ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-22  6:39                         ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-22 16:10                           ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-22 18:44                             ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-22 21:20                               ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-23  6:42                                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-23 16:34                                   ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-24 19:20                                   ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-24 19:57                                     ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-24 23:18                                       ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-25  7:29                                         ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-26 22:33                                           ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-27 18:59                                             ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-28  1:15                                               ` bug#57807: vc-edit-next-command (was bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches) Sean Whitton
     [not found]                                               ` <87k05ofgfe.fsf_-_@melete.silentflame.com>
2022-09-28 17:53                                                 ` Juri Linkov
     [not found]                                                 ` <86pmff5qtf.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
2022-09-28 20:41                                                   ` Sean Whitton

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