Re: How to get a list of changed files with VC?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 7/15/17 8:52 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Maybe we should extend dir-status-files to accept a version, or even a
> range of versions.

I have no concrete opinion on this, except that the result might be 
pushing it, complexity-wise. Let's maybe wait until we see more requests 
for exactly this functionality.

> > Maybe calling the VC backend diff command on the whole repo and
> > parsing the output could work.
>
> I think Git is the odd one out providing this information as a
> side-effect of a diff command (with a option that makes little sense
> for a diff command).  All the other back-ends I know of provide the
> info as part of the status command.  I think.

Not sure which information you mean. I only suggested diff because one 
call pass a reference revision to it.