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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:12:26 +0200

> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:57:11 +0200
> 
> On 20.11.2019 21:40, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> >>> How would that even work? vc-diff will always delegate to vc-git-diff.
> >>
> >> It will work if we program either vc-diff or vc-git-diff to call "git
> >> show" under some specific circumstances.
> > 
> > That makes little sense to me, sorry.
> 
> What we can try instead:
> 
> A new command: vc-describe-revision

Sorry, I'm not interested in bending VC to Git's twisted mindset.  The
description of a revision is its diffs, perhaps accompanied by some
meta-data, as per the back-end users' expectations.  But inventing a
new VC command class because Git has it makes no sense to me.