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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrii Kolomoiets <andreyk.mad <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 38387 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 38387 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andrii Kolomoiets <andreyk.mad <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#38387: 27.0.50;
 [PATCH] vc-hg: use 'hg summary' to populate vc-dir headers
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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