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From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A vc wish: vc-timemachine
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 07:49:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXognz4RDMHQKuXqWRfh4yvr59uFMh4M2ua7_5jr8UHZYLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a65w5o91.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 1:30 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Doesn't vc-region-history (C-x v h) fit the bill?

No.  vc-region-history's presents a concatenation of diffs.

git-timemachine is more akin to a non-existent
vc-revision-same-window.  It is a minor mode applied to a buffer
visiting a version controlled file.  It renders that buffer readonly
and then allows one to 'scroll' backward and forward over that file's
linear history, always showing a fully reconstructed revision, reusing
a single buffer.

My druthers would be for a vc-browse command that pops a new buffer
containing the most recently committed revision of the subject file.
It would support operations similar to git-timemachine:
* vc-browse-show-previous
* vc-browse-show-next

git-timemachine style refinements could include:
* vc-browse-show-commit
* vc-browse-show-annotation
* vc-browsw-goto-earlier-commit   (regex search)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-16 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-15 20:07 A vc wish: vc-timemachine John Yates
2022-10-15 20:25 ` Manuel Uberti
2022-10-16  5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-16  8:17   ` [vc-region-history in HG] (was: A vc wish: vc-timemachine) Uwe Brauer
2022-10-16 10:51     ` [vc-region-history in HG] Daniel Martín
2022-10-16 12:17       ` Uwe Brauer
2022-10-16 15:50         ` [It works] (was: [vc-region-history in HG]) Uwe Brauer
2022-10-16 13:58       ` [there is hg log -L] " Uwe Brauer
2022-10-16 11:49   ` John Yates [this message]
2022-10-16 22:29     ` A vc wish: vc-timemachine Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-17  1:26       ` John Yates
2022-10-17 19:12         ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-17 21:03           ` John Yates
2022-10-17 21:51             ` John Yates
2022-10-18 11:59     ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-18 14:46       ` John Yates
2022-10-21 19:42         ` Richard Stallman

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