Re: [vc-region-history in HG]

[Daniel Martín]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>
> I just realized that vc-region-history does not work in hg, in the sense
> that it just shows the changes in the whole buffer, while it works for
> git. I looked briefly at the code and could not find any special calls
> to git there.
>
> Any idea what could be the reason (not that there are very many HG users
> on this list...)?

In a git repository, the function delegates to the backend function
vc-git-region-history, which calls "git log -L" (requires git 1.8.4+).

If this cheatsheet is accurate,
https://hyperpolyglot.org/version-control, there is no direct Mercurial
alternative to git log -L ("commits which touched lines").

But perhaps we can implement the feature for Mercurial in some other
way.