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28.3; vc-dir fails when I have a certain branch checked out

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From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, juri <at> linkov.net, 68183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tom <at> tromey.com, spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name
Subject: bug#68183: 28.3; vc-dir fails when I have a certain branch checked out
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:15:06 +0200

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

> A NEWS entry is probably OK, though I'd like to see it first.

Please find a draft attached.  Lifted the "upstream branch" definition
from the horse's mouth, i.e. gitglossary(7), adjusting for VC relevance,
i.e. "where vc-pull fetches".

(Agonized a bit over how to typeset "VC-dir buffers"; went with that
spelling because a bunch of vc-dir.el deffaces use "VC-dir".

*5 seconds later*

But I now realize etc/NEWSes also use "VC Dired", "VC-dired", "vc-dir
for <backend>", "*vc-dir*", "VC directory mode", vc-dir-mode, and "VC
directory buffer", so maybe I oughtn't worry so much?

*5 seconds later*

💡 Ah, well, guess I could follow The Fine Manual's nomenclature?
Changed to "VC Directory buffers", per '(emacs) VC Directory Mode'.
Kept the shorthand for the ChangeLog message for brevity)


In another subthread, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name> writes:

> (I did s/find some use/find use/ in your log message because it seemed
> more(?) grammatical.  Now I read it again, I'm not sure that is true.
> I hope this is okay with you.  It's a very small change.)

(Can't attest to grammaticality, but AFAICT you ditched a weasel word
and reduced noise, and that's quite OK, thanks!)

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