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bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branch
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Sean Whitton |
Subject: |
bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:19:48 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
vc-git-log-edit-mode is already able to properly understand git-log(1)
output which logs multiple branches. Here's a hack to demonstrate that:
(let ((default-directory "~/src/emacs/")
(vc-git-log-switches
(cons "origin/scratch/posix-spawn" vc-git-log-switches)))
(call-process-shell-command "git branch -f tmp 4b2ca6bfc0")
(vc-print-branch-log "tmp"))
(4b2ca6bfc0 is an old tip of master close to scratch/posix-spawn.)
An example of a case in which it is useful to produce logs like this is
when you're trying to figure out how several feature branches relate to
each other and to the trunk.
I don't think the idea of producing a log showing more than one branch
at once is fundamentally git-specific. So I would like to extend
vc-print-branch-log to allow logging more than one branch, or
alternatively, add a vc-print-branch-logs command. I believe that there
are two design issues, on which I'm requesting review/input:
(1) Extending the VC history functions API to permit expressing a
request for the backend to print a log of multiple branches. We could
allow the START-REVISION argument to `print-log' to take a list of
branches, or add an additional optional argument
ADDITIONAL-START-REVISIONS. The latter seems more robust to me.
(2) How could vc-print-branch-log prompt the user for multiple branch
names? Magit has the user separate branch names with commas, offering
completion for each branch name. But I suppose commas never appearing
in branch names is git-specific. So the command could prompt the user
repeatedly for branch names, until the user hits RET to input a
zero-length branch name, indicating they've input them all.
--
Sean Whitton
- bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches,
Sean Whitton <=
bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches, Juri Linkov, 2022/09/14