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31.0.50; Messy vc-annotate buffer names

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, Kristoffer Balintona <krisbalintona <at> gmail.com>, 78890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78890: 31.0.50; Messy vc-annotate buffer names
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:13:25 -0700

On 6/26/2025 9:57 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Well, I was wondering about this.  I was thinking that using the
> absolute filename was desirable in that case for disambiguation.
> If file-buffer is non-nil then we already know it will have been
> uniquified so as to be unambiguous.

I suppose it's just personal preference, but I'd rather the buffer name 
err on the side of brevity, since in an 80-column frame, an absolute 
file name could easily fill up the entire mode line so that the revision 
identifier is off-screen (to say nothing of other mode line elements).

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