Re: limit the number of log entries displayed by C-x v l

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Having tried it on Bzr I see that it's still sufficiently slow with that
>> backend, that I might prefer to see the complete log so I can then
>> navigate it to see the various revisions I'm interested in, rather than
>> get a single-comment N times.
> Then one can just do C-x v l ...

Good point.

> The reason I found your idea to show a single entry interesting: with
> the limiting of C-x v l output that we do now by default, you can ask
> for a log in vc-annotate and not get it if the log entry is old enough.
> It's rather nice to see exactly the entry you asked for.
> So what should we do?

Change vc-annotate's code so that if the file's log is already displayed
in the *vc-change-log* buffer, it just jumps to the appropriate entry,
otherwise it does what your code did (i.e. ask the backend for just
that revision's log).


        Stefan