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On a similar thread, log-view-extract-comment is not really extensible
for other VCS's.

Ideally, this should get the actual commit message directly from the
backend for a file / revision; but there is no good function for doing
that -- vc-print-log is the closest, but the output of that depends on
the backend.

What would be the best way to go about getting just the commit message
in a semi-backend-agnostic manner?