GNU bug report logs - #62940
29.0.60; vc: no easy way to get diff of all outgoing changes

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Reported by: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:13:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 29.0.60

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Message #67 received at 62940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, 62940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm
Subject: Re: bug#62940: 29.0.60; vc: no easy way to get diff of all outgoing
 changes
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:07:00 +0300
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:13:24 +0300
> Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, 62940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> Okay, check out this attempt. It might be considered too cluttered. 
> Perhaps you will have suggestions for improvement.

This LGTM, thanks.  One minor nit:

> +@code{vc-diff} with a prefix argument: @kbd{C-u C-x v =}.  This prompts
> +for two revision IDs (@pxref{VCS Concepts}), and displays a diff between
> +those versions of the fileset.  The first one has several default
> +values: the revision before the last one when the fileset changed, and
> +the last revision of the current branch's upstream.
> +The second defaults to nil, which means the contents of
   ^^^^^^^^^^
"Second" is ambiguous here (because of how the previous sentence
ends), so I suggest to say "The second revision ID" instead to
disambiguate it.




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