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bug#38387: 27.0.50; [PATCH] vc-hg: use 'hg summary' to populate vc-dir h
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
bug#38387: 27.0.50; [PATCH] vc-hg: use 'hg summary' to populate vc-dir headers |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:37:32 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Nov 27 2019, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> - Is 'hg summary' stable enough? Maybe a few years from now Mercurial
> changes its output and this code stops working in all Emacs we'd have
> released in the meantime? This is why we try to use "porcelain" level
> commands (in Git terminology) when possible, not user-level.
Git calls them "plumbing". "Porcelain" are the high-level commands.
Andreas.
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