Subject: Re: bug#73232: [PATCH] Allow vc-diff to suggest a default revision in vc-dir

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:49:41 +0300

> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:13:40 +0300
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 14/09/2024 10:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Directories are never important items in
> > VC-related activities; files are.
> 
> IME it's pretty common to invoke vc-root-diff from the vc-dir buffer.

Yes, but vc-dir shows files.  Directories are shown, but when there
are files with "unusual" status, they dominate the display.

> I don't do this myself often, TBH, but if someone is working in large 
> repo, and the project is split into directories along subsystem lines, 
> then one might want to make commits limited to subdirectories. Then it 
> should be useful to call vc-diff on such a directory first.

Does anyone really do such things nowadays?