bug#59087: 29.0.50; package-vc-update error

[Feng Shu]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have found another issue:
>>>>
>>>> If I run package-update when emacs first start, it will show error:
>>>>
>>>> package-update: Symbol’s function definition is void: package-vc-update
>>>
>>> It appears that I had assumed package-vc-update was autoloaded, when it
>>> was in fact not autoloaded.  This comes back to the question of whether
>>> it is worth autoloading the function or not.
>>
>> Good job, a simple suggstion:
>>
>>  Source package ‘pyim’ installed (Version 5.2.8, Revision 
>> "16f7c3cf0736a65d8af0c8ba8396343dbd17e368").
>>
>> seem to too long, what about:
>>
>>  Source package ‘pyim’ installed (Version 5.2.8, Revision "16f7c3").
>
> That would work too, but abbreviating commits is not always correct...
>
> How about using `format-spec' together with a user option to format the
> success messages?  E.g. you could set it do "Source package `%n'
> installed (Version %v, Revision %6r)".

Seem to be a good idea.

>
> Then again, I don't know if this issue is that important.
>
>> or more info:
>>  
>>  Source package ‘pyim’ installed (Version 5.2.8, Revision "16f7c3", Commit 
>> "commit message").
>
> VC doesn't expose a convenient way of fetching commit messages from revisions.

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