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29.0.50; (vc-print-log) broken over TRAMP

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>
Cc: 51497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Wolfgang Scherer <wolfgang.scherer <at> gmx.de>
Subject: bug#51497: 29.0.50; (vc-print-log) broken over TRAMP
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 15:06:41 +0300

On 03.11.2021 06:03, Dima Kogan wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:
> 
>> On 31.10.2021 09:58, Dima Kogan wrote:
>>>     kogan <at> aargh:~/stereo-server$ git --version
>>>     git version 1.8.3.1
>>
>> Sounds like CentOS 7. Released 7 years ago, but updated last year,
>> even.
> 
> Yessir. I wasn't a fan of this even 7 years ago, but it's not a battle I
> want to fight.
> 
> 
>>> Yeah, it's ancient, but I don't control this particular machine, and I
>>> don't think basic stuff like "C-x v l" should be non-functional here.
>>> Can we add some logic to emacs to not hard-depend on this stuff?
>>
>> Any idea which version of Git introduced literal pathspecs?
> 
> I think 1.8.5:
> 
>    https://github.com/git/git/commit/5c6933d201fab183a9779dca0fe43bf2f1eca098

Looks like it. Thanks!

>> Anyway, with Michael's code, see the attached patch you can try.
> 
> It fixes the problem. Thank you very much.

All right.

Lars, Eli, can we put it in Emacs 28?

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