bug#18110: 24.4.50; [PATCH] vc-git-expanded-log-entry no longer strips leading whitespace from git logs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02/23/2016 02:30 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> > -    (unless (eobp)
> > -      ;; Indent the expanded log entry.
> > -      (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) 2)
> > -      (buffer-string))))
> > +    (unless (eobp) (buffer-string))))
>
> It seems like a deliberate design choice...  I have no idea whether it's
> a good one, though.  Anybody?

Not wasting extra horizontal space seems like a good choice. It might be 
implemented in a smarter way, though, like chopping off first two 
characters from each non-empty line, instead of reindenting them all.

I'd be happy to see a patch along these lines.