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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:38:27 +0200

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

The interface is indeed the same, but the results aren't, because each
VCS produces different outputs.