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incompatible, undocumented change to vc-working-revision

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Message #121 received at 20637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 20637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20637: incompatible, undocumented change to
 vc-working-revision
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:58:37 +0300

On 04/18/2016 03:53 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:

>> It would be a revert to the code that has been in use for a while.
>
> The current code has been in use for 11 months. Beside this bug report,
> nobody has worried about that. And the problems this bug report speaks
> about are solved, I believe.

They are.

>> Nothing absolutely necessary about that, but it might be prudent to
>> revert the changes made without clear understanding why they should be
>> made. Please correct me on this if I'm wrong, of course.
>
> Again, it is a matter of not touching code so close to a release. 35+
> years experience in software development tell me so. Often enough I've
> changed just one single line, because "it is obvious it cannot be
> wrong". Haha.

Fair enough. We can revert them on master, though.

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