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29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 57807 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:18:13 -0700

Hello,

On Thu 15 Sep 2022 at 08:33AM +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> So the difference is that what you want to see is all the branches up
> to their HEAD, and not just branches merged into the current branch,
> is that right?
>
> If so, I guess some optional feature of "C-x v L" could do that.
> However, if the repository has many branches (and ours, for example,
> does), wouldn't that make for a crowded and hard-t-read log buffer?
> Perhaps asking the user for a name of one branch will be enough?  More
> than one branch could be problematic on display, I think.

Not all branches, as indeed that would quickly become unreadable.  The
user has to say exactly which branches they would like to be included.
And usually you wouldn't type more than two or three.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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