Re: vc-region-history, was: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 02:39:01 +0300
> 
> vc-region-history, on the other hand, gives a narrow view of each 
> changeset (but the full commit messages, which is understandable, but 
> can be confusing), and it seems basically impossible for it to correctly 
> follow the history of a given piece of code, as long as its complex enough.

That's very far from my experience.  I frequently need to investigate
fragments of code which have very long histories, and "log -L" always
gives me the full picture, even when the code in question changed
significantly, right to the commit that first introduced the code.

Perhaps the secret is in choosing the appropriate region.  I normally
try to submit the entire function where the code lives, and it works
very well.