Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The diff works just fine if you read it in the obvious way, which is 
  > that it changes the API for frame-spec-choose by adding an argument 
  > no-match-retval. There's no other plausible way to read the diff. 
  > Obviously one should ignore the irrelevant part of the diff's context, 
  > and that includes the "face-set-match-display" as well as the "match))".

A human reading the diff can compensate for this quirk with extra
concentration.  That is a nuisance but not an obstacle.

However, for the idea of using these diffs in a script to generate a
list of the entities changed in a given commit, the script needs to
deal with this quirk.

Want to write it?


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