bug#38044: 27.0.50; There should be an easier way to look at a specific vc commit

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 22.11.2019 15:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stephen.berman@gmx.net, 38044@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:20:26 +0200
> >
> > On 22.11.2019 10:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > And the original request was for describing a revision, so if a VCS
> > > doesn't support "log -p", we should simply display the diffs, because
> > > that's the best description of the revision in those VCSes.
> >
> > Why? All VCSes support printing the commit message.
>
> Because (see above) that's the best description of a revision with
> those VCSes.  And because adding what 'log' produces to that would
> mean an additional delay with those VCSes, which in this case is not
> justified, IMO.

That's against the principles of VC, which is making a generic, unified 
interface.