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31.0.50; Messy vc-annotate buffer names

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Message #92 received at 78890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>,
 Kristoffer Balintona <krisbalintona <at> gmail.com>, 78890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78890: 31.0.50; Messy vc-annotate buffer names
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:12:07 +0100

Hello,

On Thu 26 Jun 2025 at 11:23pm +02, Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:13:57 -0700 Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/26/2025 11:27 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
>>> I'm more concerned about an actual clash in buffer names between files
>>> with the same name in different directories.  What do you think about
>>> that?
>>
>> I think it would be fairly rare for us not to have the original buffer in the
>> first place, but it would be even rarer to additionally have some *other*
>> buffer with the same (non-directory) buffer name.
>
> I often have two buffers of the same Emacs source file from master and
> from emacs-30 (on occasion even a third one from emacs-29), and when I
> call vc-annotate on them the buffer names look like this:
>
> *Annotate vc-annotate.el<emacs-30> (rev 039ad15373d)*
> *Annotate vc-annotate.el<emacs-master> (rev 2b34f38b383)*
>
> Can these be retained if the source buffers are killed?

No, I don't think we can do that.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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