master de0800c5117: ; * lisp/vc/log-view.el (log-view-modify-change-comment): Add FIXME.

[Sean Whitton]

branch: master
commit de0800c511740de7ad4dcb7dda0a0083a094d749
Author: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Commit: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

    ; * lisp/vc/log-view.el (log-view-modify-change-comment): Add FIXME.
---
 lisp/vc/log-view.el | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/vc/log-view.el b/lisp/vc/log-view.el
index 647a7dc569f..360f522272b 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/log-view.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/log-view.el
@@ -550,6 +550,12 @@ If called interactively, visit the version at point."
          (rev (log-view-current-tag))
          ;; `log-view-extract-comment' is the legacy code for this; the
          ;; `get-change-comment' backend action is the new way to do it.
+         ;;
+         ;; FIXME: Eventually the older backends should have
+         ;; implementations of `get-change-comment' because that ought
+         ;; to be more robust than the approach taken by
+         ;; `log-view-extract-comment'.  Then we can delete the latter.
+         ;; See discussion in bug#64055.  --spwhitton
          (comment (condition-case _
                       (vc-call-backend log-view-vc-backend
                                        'get-change-comment files rev)