bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Thu 22 Sep 2022 at 09:44PM +03, Juri Linkov wrote:

>>> Another variant is to bind 'C-x v c' to a command that uses
>>> 'read-key-sequence' to read a key sequence from the vc keymap,
>>> then call a command with call-interactively while let-binding
>>> vc-want-edit-command-p, like project--switch-project-command does.
>>> Then e.g. 'C-x v c L' will have mnemonic "vc command for root log".
>>
>> That seems alright.  Maybe we could use some symbol, e.g. '$' or '#',
>> instead of a letter 'c', to distinguish its special status.
>
> I see that 'c' might clash with a possible future command.
> For example, git has a lot of commands whose names start
> with the letter 'c': checkout, cherry-pick, clone, commit, ...
> So the probability of the need to use 'c' is high.
>
> OTOH, what key would keep the mnemonic of a prefix arg?
> Maybe 'C-x v C-u'?

Might be confusing if you need to do C-u C-x v C-u C-x v b l ...

'$' and '!' have shell command mnemonics.

-- 
Sean Whitton