Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03/09/2016 08:39 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > Making vc-git-expanded-log-entry look for and show a corresponding entry
> > from the fixes file shouldn't be particularly hard.
>
> But what about vc-print-log and vc-region-history?

vc-print-log - only if we make it use the same format as 
vc-print-root-log, which isn't not a terrible solution (it'll improve UI 
consistency).

vc-region-history - probably not, if we can't use the same approach for 
messages as above. Although we could hack something with jit-lock...

> Doable in Elisp, yes, but how hard, and at what performance cost?

With the above caveats, not too hard, and shouldn't be too slow either.

Although if we could co-opt git notes after all, it would be even easier 
to just ask Git to show them together with commit messages. But that's 
something Someone should investigate.