Re: On the adoption of transient.el

[John Yates]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 3:24 AM Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
>
> > On the subject of new vc commands, I would love a vc equivalent
> > of git-timemachine.
>
> I wonder how is this different from vc-print-log and then
> using 'f' (log-view-find-revision) on different commits
> navigated by 'n' and 'p' in the *vc-change-log* buffer?
> Or 'vc-annotate' and then using 'a' (vc-annotate-revision-previous-to-line).

Discoverability.  Less indirection.  No need to access a log buffer.

But, most importantly, context.  Time-machine understands that
the revisions being visited are related and attempts to open each
new revision at the same position.  Your suggestions open each
revision positioned at the first line.