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[PATCH] Allow vc-diff to suggest a default revision in vc-dir

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Message #23 received at 73232 <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, 73232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#73232: [PATCH] Allow vc-diff to suggest a default revision in
 vc-dir
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:49:41 +0300

> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:13:40 +0300
> Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, 73232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> 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?

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