bug#67062: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Abbreviate the revision in 'vc-annotate' (for Git)

[Jim Porter]

On 11/10/2023 11:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:49:59 -0800
> > From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> >
> > Attached is a patch to add a 'short-revision' function for VC backends,
> > and a Git implementation for it.
>
> If this is a Git-only issue, perhaps it would be better to have a
> Git-only option, instead of defining a whole new VC method?

Perhaps, though I'm not sure the best way to do that. I'll also take a 
look at some other VC backends to see if they could benefit. I usually 
use Git these days, so I haven't tried vc-annotate using a different 
backend.

> In any case, please document whatever is eventually accepted, both in
> NEWS and in the manual.

Definitely. This was just a sketch of a patch to make sure the idea 
makes sense and to get feedback on whether I should do this in a totally 
different way (which would likely require totally different 
documentation too).