GNU bug report logs - #23485
25.1.50; patch (docstring) for vc-hg.el

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Reported by: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>

Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 19:44:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch, wontfix

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>, 23485 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23485: 25.1.50; patch (docstring) for vc-hg.el
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:26:44 +0200

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>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>> 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.

> (Especially since this bug report is now three years old...)

Another way of seeing it: because it took 3 years to answer the bug
report :'(

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