GNU bug report logs - #31759
26.1; Unwelcome change in mode-line revision display for Mercurial repositories

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Richard Stanton <stanton <at> haas.berkeley.edu>

Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 31759 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>,
 Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: 31759 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31759: 26.1;
 Unwelcome change in mode-line revision display for Mercurial
 repositories
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:51:32 +0300

> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:44:26 +0100
> 
> This is now controlled by the variables:
>      `vc-hg-symbolic-revision-styles'
>      `vc-hg-use-file-version-for-mode-line-version'
> 
> To show the local Hg revision number (rather than the changeset hash),
> try something like:
> 
>     (setq vc-hg-symbolic-revision-styles '("{rev}"))

Thanks for the recipe.

Daniel, this is your change.  Please in the future try to avoid
pushing changes with user-visible effects, let alone
backward-incompatible behavior changes, without any documentation in
NEWS and in the manuals.  TIA.
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