From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-modify-change-comment for "modern" backend fix
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 14:31:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvilq4814l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nqshM-0008EQ-7m@fencepost.gnu.org> (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Tue, 17 May 2022 04:36:56 -0400")
> 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?
Add a new backend operation?
Note that maybe you don't want "just the commit message text" because
you may want to preserve extra info such as the `Author:`.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-17 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-17 7:04 vc-modify-change-comment for "modern" backend fix Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-05-17 8:36 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-05-17 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-17 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-05-17 19:10 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-05-17 23:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-18 6:34 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-05-18 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-19 6:11 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-05-19 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-19 0:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-19 6:11 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-05-19 9:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-19 9:58 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-05-19 10:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
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