Subject: Re: bug#38044: 27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a specific vc commit

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:26:42 +0200

On 22.11.2019 15:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:20:26 +0200
>>
>> On 22.11.2019 10:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> And the original request was for describing a revision, so if a VCS
>>> doesn't support "log -p", we should simply display the diffs, because
>>> that's the best description of the revision in those VCSes.
>>
>> Why? All VCSes support printing the commit message.
> 
> Because (see above) that's the best description of a revision with
> those VCSes.  And because adding what 'log' produces to that would
> mean an additional delay with those VCSes, which in this case is not
> justified, IMO.

That's against the principles of VC, which is making a generic, unified 
interface.