bug#67062: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Abbreviate the revision in 'vc-annotate' (for Git)

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12/11/2023 20:48, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > no, vc-annotate will call a new function, which will have a special
> > > code for Git alone.
> > That's one extra indirection, but conceptually the same. We couldn't modify
> > vc-working-revision for this, so it'll have to be a new function.
> But maybe could add a new optional arg to vc-working-revision?

That's worse: we'll end up with a number-of-args migration, having to 
use a condition-case form for a number of years. All for a new argument 
that isn't used by the majority of the backends.