Re: vc-git feature proposale: modeline and annotate

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:26:21 +0100
> 
> >> I would like to suggest to have, at least optionally, the result 
> >> of 
> >> (shell-command "git name-rev HEAD")
> >> 
> >> In the modeline and/or   in the annotation buffer.
> 
> > What prevents you from having that?  IOW, why are you posting this
> > here, when you can already customize the heck out your mode lines?
> 
> Are we talking about the mode line? I don't know how to obtain the
> feature I discuss below.

One way is by using the :eval construct in mode-line-format.

> Currently (taking auctex as an example) I obtain 
> 
> f7c0c735d (Tassilo Horn                   2020-09-04     1) ;;; tex.el --- 
> Support for TeX documents.  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
> fedf75103 (Per Abrahamsen                 1994-04-07     2) 
> 4b1c7015a (Ikumi Keita                    2022-03-19     3) ;; Copyright (C) 
> 1985-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> f23d8867d (Ralf Angeli                    2004-05-02     4) 
> 5b40e9b1b (David Kastrup                  2005-03-28     5) ;; Maintainer: 
> auctex-devel@gnu.org
> 7e5d40a53 (David Kastrup                  2003-02-15    14) 
> 
> 
> But I would like to have something like this
> 
> master~2 (Tassilo Horn                   2020-09-04     1) ;;; tex.el --- 
> Support for TeX documents.  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
> master~100 (Per Abrahamsen               1994-04-07     2) 
> master~40 (Ikumi Keita                   2022-03-19     3) ;; Copyright (C) 
> 1985-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> master~10 (Ralf Angeli                   2004-05-02     4) 
> master~5 (David Kastrup                  2005-03-28     5) ;; Maintainer: 
> auctex-devel@gnu.org
> master~100 (David Kastrup                2003-02-15    14) 
> 
> The doctring of vc-annotate does not indicate how to achieve that.
> Can you tell me how?

I don't think "git blame" can do that.