GNU bug report logs - #61712
30.0.50; Want way to generate VC log for arbitrary list of files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 61712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name, 61712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#61712: 30.0.50; Want way to generate VC log for arbitrary
 list of files
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:15:12 +0300
On 23/02/2023 20:12 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
>> Cc: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>,  61712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:59:05 +0200
>> 
>> > How could you know, when this important feature was almost completely
>> > undocumented?  Apart of a single NEWS entry, which is also quite
>> > misleading in what it does NOT say, there was no mention of this
>> > anywhere in our manuals, until now.
>> 
>> Adding text for such a minor feature as using Dired for VC commands
>> to the top node "Version Control" makes it too long.
>
> It isn't a minor feature, IMO.  It enables a lot of workflows that
> previously were hard or impossible.  The first example is the question
> which started this discussion.

Oh yes, and it isn't (wasn't) easily discoverable.  Thanks for adding
that to manual.




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