Subject: bug#38387: 27.0.50; [PATCH] vc-hg: use 'hg summary' to populate vc-dir headers

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:37:32 +0100

On Nov 27 2019, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> - Is 'hg summary' stable enough? Maybe a few years from now Mercurial
> changes its output and this code stops working in all Emacs we'd have
> released in the meantime? This is why we try to use "porcelain" level
> commands (in Git terminology) when possible, not user-level.

Git calls them "plumbing".  "Porcelain" are the high-level commands.

Andreas.

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