commit d4eed1b8f7299caf0db8eae8432febbfb00d6db6
parent 579760792145ce682ad9ea4099e325c38a7cb079
Author: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:45:40 +0100
Spend more words over 'C-x v T'
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/reviews/emacs/hype.org b/reviews/emacs/hype.org
@@ -30,19 +30,23 @@ Particularly fond of =C-x v w w= to explore alternate versions of a
file; ~magit-find-file~ is still convenient for quickly blaming
arbitrary revisions, but visiting an actual checkout allows deploying
the full language server & linter gamut.
-**** =C-x v [IOT]= prefixes for DWIM diffs with respect to upstreams
+**** =C-x v [IOT]= prefixes for DWIM comparisons with upstreams
NB: =I= & =O= prefixes are opt-in with
=vc-use-incoming-outgoing-prefixes=.
-- =I= stands for "incoming" = "what would be pulled",
-- =O= stands for "outgoing" = "what would be pushed",
-- =T= stands for "topic" and purports to compare the current branch to
- its upstream, assuming we are sitting on a transient feature branch
- that will eventually be merged back into a longer-lived development
- trunk.
+- =I= stands for "incoming" = "what we would pull",
+- =O= stands for "outgoing" = "what we would push",
+- =T= stands for "topic" = "what we would ask /them/ to merge";
+ commands in this prefix purport to compare "outstanding" changes
+ between the current branch and its upstream, assuming we are sitting
+ on a transient feature branch that will eventually be merged back
+ into a longer-lived development trunk.
Each prefix offers === (fileset diff), =D= (root diff) and =L= (root
log).
+
+For more information about Emacs's understanding of "outstanding
+changes", see bug#80006 and [[info:emacs#Outstanding Changes][emacs#Outstanding Changes]].
**** =M-RET=, =M-n= & =M-p= for low-friction Log View movement
Partly self-imposed by the decision to split the commit message in the
log buffer, and the patch in a separate diff buffer; still, nice to
