Emacs VC mode cheat sheet

The following is an excerpt from the 3rd Edition of the O’Reilly and Associates classic Learning GNU Emacs, regarding Emacs’ “vc-mode”, which I’ve been using more often of late:

12.5. VC Command Summary

To give you the flavor of the other things VC can do for you, Table 12-1 provides a summary of VC commands. Each one will be explained in detail, but you can probably guess some of their actions from the command names.

Table 12-1. VC commands

Keystrokes	Command name	Action
C-x v v	vc-next-action	Go to the next logical version control state.
C-x v =	vc-diff	Generate a version difference report.
C-x v u	vc-revert-buffer	Throw away changes since the last checked-in revision.
C-x v ~	vc-version-other-window	Retrieve a given revision in another window.
C-x v l	vc-print-log	Display a file’s change comments and history.
C-x v i	vc-register	Register a file for version control.
C-x v h	vc-insert-headers	Insert version control headers in a file.
C-x v r	vc-retrieve-snapshot	Check out a named project snapshot.
C-x v s	vc-create-snapshot	Create a named project snapshot.
C-x v c	vc-cancel-version	Throw away a saved revision.
C-x v a	vc-update-change-log	Update a GNU-style ChangeLog file.