; Revert "Publicize behavior of log-view-diff at beginning/end of active region"

This reverts commit 82db17d0d1231c4aa26e837f37428c44a67663ea.

Undo the half-baked implementation of the new feature in Git log
buffers until we can do it better (bug#35624).

3 files changed, 2 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
index 0fbf91ae613..4986c111030 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
@@ -1033,7 +1033,6 @@ systems support modifying change comments.
 Visit the revision indicated at the current line.
 
 @item d
-@itemx =
 Display a diff between the revision at point and the next earlier
 revision, for the specific file.
 
@@ -1048,16 +1047,6 @@ L}), toggle between showing and hiding the full log entry for the
 revision at point.
 @end table
 
-To compare two arbitrary revisions, activate the region: set the
-beginning of the region to the line with the first revision and the
-end of the region to the line with the second revision to compare,
-then type @kbd{d} or @kbd{=}.  When the beginning of the region is on
-the top line that has no revision, it uses the current working revision
-as the first revision to compare.  When the end of the region is on
-the bottom non-revision line after the last revision line, then it
-uses the next earlier revision after the last displayed revision as
-the second revision to compare.
-
 @vindex vc-log-show-limit
 Because fetching many log entries can be slow, the
 @file{*vc-change-log*} buffer displays no more than 2000 revisions by
diff --git a/lisp/vc/log-view.el b/lisp/vc/log-view.el
index 0b57e1d5086..3389264ce6e 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/log-view.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/log-view.el
@@ -585,13 +585,6 @@ point, get the diff between the revision at point and its
 previous revision.  Otherwise, get the diff between the revisions
 where the region starts and ends.
 
-When the beginning of the region is on the top line that has no revision,
-use the current working revision as the first revision to compare.
-
-When the end of the region is on the bottom non-revision line after
-the last revision line, use the previous revision of the last
-displayed revision as the second revision to compare.
-
 Unlike `log-view-diff-changeset', this function only shows the
 part of the changeset which affected the currently considered
 file(s)."
@@ -607,13 +600,6 @@ point, get the diff between the revision at point and its
 previous revision.  Otherwise, get the diff between the revisions
 where the region starts and ends.
 
-When the beginning of the region is on the top line that has no revision,
-use the current working revision as the first revision to compare.
-
-When the end of the region is on the bottom non-revision line after
-the last revision line, use the previous revision of the last
-displayed revision as the second revision to compare.
-
 Unlike `log-view-diff' this function shows the whole changeset,
 including changes affecting other files than the currently
 considered file(s)."
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
index b6feb3b8d1e..61c13026cc5 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
@@ -1017,8 +1017,8 @@ If LIMIT is a revision string, use it as an end-revision."
     ;; If the buffer exists from a previous invocation it might be
     ;; read-only.
     (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
-      (with-current-buffer buffer
-        (insert "\n")
+      (with-current-buffer
+          buffer
         (apply 'vc-git-command buffer
                'async files
                (append