GNU bug report logs - #57400
29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, 57400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Antoine Kalmbach <ane <at> iki.fi>
Subject: bug#57400: 29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 18:47:40 +0300

On 07.10.2022 18:30, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>>> It is for this reason that I prefer the current approach, especially
>>> when combined with the ability to select commits in a log.
>> I'm definitely not going to insist: I'm not the target audience of
>> this feature.
> I could imagine falling back onto the manual selection of revisions when
> the root directory is not defined, but I fear that would be too
> inconsistent and might lead to unintended/unexpected behaviour when
> switching between VCSs.

IMHO we could just refuse to support the backends which don't have the 
notion of root directory, in this feature.

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