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

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Message #74 received at 57400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 57400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Antoine Kalmbach <ane <at> iki.fi>
Subject: Re: bug#57400: 29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:22:16 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: 57400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Antoine Kalmbach <ane <at> iki.fi>
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:06:57 +0200
>> 
>> Do many other VCs have commands to prepare patches like this?
>
> Hg and bzr do have such commands.  

Yes, and I would plan to implement it for these as well (even though I
have never used bzr).

>                                    Others should indeed run vc-diff, I
> think.

That seem possible, but for that to work I will need a generic way to
detect the predecessor of a commit and extract a commit message.
Currently, I am not sure if this can be done.

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