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

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Message #56 received at 38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#38044: 27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a
 specific vc commit
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:20:08 +0200

>> Let's please make it another backend command instead of piggy-backing on
>> 'log-search'.
>
> I agree.
>
> Stepping a notch back, wasn't the original request to have a command
> that would display a specific commit?  If so, that's not a "log"
> command, that's closer to a "diff" command.  And don't we already have
> a "diff" command which shows diffs for a specific revision?

Then we could use something like the existing backend 'region-history'
that for vc-git uses 'git log', but displays both the log and diff
in one output buffer.

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