From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, 57807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:44:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h719shi6.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v8ppn5b2.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:17:13 +0300")
Hello,
On Wed 14 Sep 2022 at 10:17PM +03, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> vc-git-log-edit-mode is already able to properly understand git-log(1)
>
> I suppose vc-git-log-view-mode, not vc-git-log-edit-mode?
Yes, sorry.
>> output which logs multiple branches. Here's a hack to demonstrate that:
>>
>> (let ((default-directory "~/src/emacs/")
>> (vc-git-log-switches
>> (cons "origin/scratch/posix-spawn" vc-git-log-switches)))
>> (call-process-shell-command "git branch -f tmp 4b2ca6bfc0")
>> (vc-print-branch-log "tmp"))
>>
>> (4b2ca6bfc0 is an old tip of master close to scratch/posix-spawn.)
>
> 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.
> Maybe vc-print-branch-logs, to keep the original vc-print-branch-log
> uncomplicated.
Perhaps a prefix argument?
>> (2) How could vc-print-branch-log prompt the user for multiple branch
>> names? Magit has the user separate branch names with commas, offering
>> completion for each branch name. But I suppose commas never appearing
>> in branch names is git-specific. So the command could prompt the user
>> repeatedly for branch names, until the user hits RET to input a
>> zero-length branch name, indicating they've input them all.
>
> Maybe by using completing-read-multiple with branch names separated
> by crm-separator, not necessarily comma?
I guess it would be a strange VC system that allows spaces in branch
names, huh?
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-14 22:44 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 [this message]
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
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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