Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator

[Richard Stallman]

    Please don't, there temporarily was some for a few months, and it was
    discussed at length on the list and voted out.  It is annoying when you
    have to copy the buffer that there's extra text that is not part of the
    diff that you have to deal with.

Suppose it says "End of diff output".  Why is it a problem if you copy
that along with the diff?  If you copy that, what harm does it do?
It won't bother `patch'.