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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 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: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:00:46 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,
>   38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  juri <at> linkov.net
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:04:51 +0100
> 
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > It's kind of both. 'git show HEAD' is the format that I'd personally
> > expect: some meta info, including the commit message, followed by the 
> > diff contents.
> 
> Yup; that is indeed what I wanted when I opened this bug report.

And you will, with Git (and probably hg as well).  I was talking about
other backends, where users are used to describing a revision by diffs
alone.

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