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27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a specific vc commit

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#38044: 27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a specific vc commit
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:06:06 +0200

> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> 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.

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