bug#23485: 25.1.50; patch (docstring) for vc-hg.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> This little patch provides some additional information for vc-hg.el in
> order to get the old behavior of the modeline.

[...]

> +If you want the old behaviour of `vc-hg.el' (see the variable
> +'vc-hg-use-file-version-for-mode-line-version')  namely that
> +the modline displays [Hg-revnumber], then you must set the variable
> +to the list (\"{rev}\")."

I think (except in some peculiar circumstances), the place to talk about
"the old behaviour" is in the NEWS file, not in docstrings: The doc
string should talk about current behaviour, because (new) users won't
have seen the old behaviour.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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