From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:26:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/emacs/vc-git.el: various improvements.
Message-ID: <85odicor5p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vejj9avaf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> (vc-git-previous-version): Simplify.
>> (vc-git-next-version): Simplify and make more efficient.
>
> If you make the result symbolic using vc-git-symbolic-commit, do you
> need to add --abbrev/--abbrev-commit to these functions?  These
> options have very small but still non zero cost.

vc-git-symbolic-commit may not always find a name (at least it did not
while I still used --tags).  The abbrev provides a fallback in that
case.

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