Re: A vc wish: vc-timemachine

[Richard Stallman]

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  > git-timemachine is more akin to a non-existent
  > vc-revision-same-window.  It is a minor mode applied to a buffer
  > visiting a version controlled file.  It renders that buffer readonly
  > and then allows one to 'scroll' backward and forward over that file's
  > linear history, always showing a fully reconstructed revision, reusing
  > a single buffer.

That is a nice feature, but it should not be limited to git repos.
Can you use the existing repo-sw-independent VC primitives to do this
job?

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