bug#19045: 25.0.50; [PATCH] vc-git-print-log use --follow

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 2/6/18 00:31, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > Could we use message-truncate-lines and just one message call instead?
>
> Maybe.  But currently what is truncated is not the whole command line,
> but each of the command switches.  I don't know how important this is.

Apparently the idea is that "in background... done" is shown in the echo 
area regardless of the command string length.

> > The 20 characters limit seems arbitrary, we just need to avoid resizing the
> > echo area. And if the "in background... done" part being truncated is
> > a worry, we can rephrase them to go at the beginning of the sentence.
>
> Indeed, truncating "in background... done" is not nice, and I have
> no idea how to rephrase it.

How about:

Running in background: %s

and

Finished in background: %s

> Anyway, this is the current patch to try:

Does it work like you wanted? According to Eli, we should replace 
message-truncate-lines here with resize-mini-windows.