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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:56:15 +0200

On 27.11.2019 15:37, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Git calls them "plumbing".  "Porcelain" are the high-level commands.

My mistake, I guess. Git makes terminology a little confusing in that 
part. Because the example I was thinking of is 'git status --porcelain' 
which is meant to

   "Give the output in an easy-to-parse format for scripts. This is
    similar to the short output, but will remain stable across Git
    versions and regardless of user configuration."

In any case, the question is about output's stability.