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30.0.50; Want VC command to view a single revision like a patch

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Message #8 received at 71461 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>, 71461 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#71461: 30.0.50; Want VC command to view a single revision
 like a patch
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:06:45 +0300

Hi!

On 10/06/2024 11:00, Sean Whitton wrote:
> While resolving conflicts, I often just want to look at a summary of a
> single revision.  I want to see the revision's root diff, and sometimes
> also its log message.
> 
> This isn't very easy with VC at present.  There is
>      C-x v b L <revision> RET =
> and
>      C-u C-x v D <revision>~1 RET <revision> RET
> but neither are very nice (and the latter requires you to specify the
> previous revision using VCS-specific notation).

There is this somewhat clunky sequence: M-1 C-x v L <revision> RET

Does this work for you?

There is description for this subfeature in vc-print-root-log's docstring.

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