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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: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#38044: 27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a specific vc commit
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 05:44:41 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>,  larsi <at> gnus.org,
>   stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,  38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:20:08 +0200
> 
> > 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.

region-history is slow, so I'm not sure it is a good starting point
for this feature.  A diff command is usually very fats with every VCS.

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