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

[Jim Porter]

On 11/12/2023 12:37 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 12/11/2023 20:48, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > 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.

Also, it wouldn't work for what we want to do: REV in 'vc-annotate' 
isn't necessarily the current revision; it could be any revision. We 
just want to take that revision and turn it into a friendlier (read: 
shorter) form for the buffer name.