bug#28817: incorrect NEWS entry about vc-state faces

[Charles A. Roelli]

> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:34:17 +0200
> From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
> 
> > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:41:55 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > CC: 28817@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > 
> > > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:28:44 +0200
> > > From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
> > > 
> > > * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 65fa442..: Lars Ingebrigtsen 
> > > 2016-03-01 Add a NEWS entry for the colorful VC indicator
> > >   commit 65fa442f2bae42d3f9b06264ca432073ee3197c3
> > >   Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> > >   Date:   Tue Mar 1 14:31:35 2016 +1100
> > > 
> > >   Add a NEWS entry for the colorful VC indicator
> > > 
> > > * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2621c29..: Lars Ingebrigtsen 
> > > 2016-03-01 Use colors in the VC mode lines
> > >   commit 2621c293d82c15c00d9e73a8db75d70da7d0a23b
> > >   Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> > >   Date:   Tue Mar 1 14:25:27 2016 +1100
> > > 
> > >   Use colors in the VC mode lines
> > > 
> > >   * lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el: Make the mode line faces default to
> > >   using colors to more clearly tell the user what the status is.
> > > 
> > > The NEWS entry commit seems to have made it to Emacs 26, but the mode
> > > line faces are still the same as in Emacs 25.  Looks like commit
> > > 2621c29 got lost somehow.
> > 
> > Some merge snafu, I suppose: this was merged from the emacs-25 branch.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand: the commit was made in the master branch.
> See:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2016-02/msg00709.html
> 
> Ah, I think I understand now.  Commit 2621c29 was reverted later:
> 
> * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7882dc6..: John Wiegley 2016-03-06 Revert 
> "Use colors in the VC mode lines"
>   commit 7882dc625e1ec562fcd0e1b743ef11b160cae18e
>   Author: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
>   Date:   Sun Mar 6 12:51:44 2016 -0800
> 
>   Revert "Use colors in the VC mode lines"
> 
>   This reverts commit 2621c293d82c15c00d9e73a8db75d70da7d0a23b.
> 
> and I can't find a revert for commit 65fa442 (the NEWS entry).

It's fixed, closing.

  commit 11db253c082a06629d9e8baf30339b6024a0af4f
  Author: Charles A. Roelli <charles@aurox.ch>
  Date:   Tue Nov 21 20:36:19 2017 +0100

  Remove incorrect NEWS item about VC state indicator (Bug#28817)

  * etc/NEWS (VC and related modes): Remove news item about the VC
  state indicator.  This should have been done with commit 7882dc6
  of 2016-03-06 'Revert "Use colors in the VC mode lines"'.