Re: git show

[Stephen Berman]

On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:42:18 +0200 Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:

>> The only vc thing I find myself leaving Emacs for to do is "git show
>> <id>" (when people refer to a specific id in a bug report, for
>> instance).  I've looked through the vc-dir command set, and I can't find
>> anything like that.
>>
>> Is that command missing from vc-dir?
>
> Not missing, it's implemented already by
>
>   C-u M-x vc-log-search RET git log -1 <id> RET

I didn't know about this, but it's not as convenient as being able to
show the commit message (or the whole commit) of the id at point (I
wrote such a command for myself for my local Emacs branches, but I'm not
familiar enough with the internals of VC to integrate it with VC).

Steve Berman