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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: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 38044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38044: 27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a specific vc commit
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:34:00 +0200

On 21.11.2019 16:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The reason I think this should be a vc-diff subcommand is that most
> kinds of VCS describe a revision as diffs.

I strongly disagree with that idea.

When we create a revision, we specify both the changes, *and* a commit 
message. And some other metadata, like author, etc.

That happens in *every* VCS I had worked with, starting with CVS.

So no, a revision can't be described simply by a diff. The info should 
include all of the above.

Any VCS that doesn't support commit messages, etc, can simply show a 
diff. But we shouldn't cater to the lowest commit denominator in the API.

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