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Inconsistent naming of VC buffers

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 6197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6197: Inconsistent naming of VC buffers
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:17:20 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> VC buffers are named inconsistently (sometimes "vc", sometimes "VC"):
>
> emacs -Q README   # file from Emacs Bazaar repository
> C-x v =     -> *vc-diff* buffer   ("vc")
>
> Make a change to the file
> C-x v v     -> *VC-log* buffer    ("VC")
>
> M-x vc-dir  -> *vc-dir* buffer    ("vc")
>
> Maybe it's just the log buffer that is different.

It's possible renaming the "*VC-log*" buffer to the more consistent
"*vc-log*" will make some third-party packages that look for the former
name break, but it seems unlikely.

So I've now committed this change to Emacs 24.

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