Re: [Emacs-diffs] master de76a16: Performance improvements for vc-hg

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:11:46 -0800
> 
> > Having to go through the trouble of re-implementing part of the VCS to
> > parse the internal data to figure out the working revision, even though
> > we have no idea if the user will ever care, is deeply unsatisfactory.
> 
> I find the information useful, and we can now get it cheaply.

We are paying a non-trivial price as a project for that information,
see for example bug#21559.  Maybe it should be an option, off by
default?

> Users can easily remove vc-hg from vc-handled-backends if they don't
> want the functionality.

That's hardly user-friendly, IMO.