On Mon, 07 Oct, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Stefan Bellon <sbel...@sbellon.de> > wrote: > > > Previously, with fossil 1.24, the third column of the "annotate" > > output was the author who did the most recent change to the line. > > Now, with fossil 1.27, it's just the line number being displayed. > > > > First of all, this information is almost useless because it can be > > calculated by counting the lines. > > It isn't useless. The annotate output is intended to be read by > humans, and humans are not very good at counting thousands of lines.
That's why I said "almost useless". But nonetheless, "cat -n" exists as well, for those that want to count. > > But more severely, the information > > who changed the line is now not present anymore at all. > > Most people are more interested in the fact that the line changed. > The identity of the editor is of secondary importance, I beg to differ strongly. The command is called "annotate" and not "cat", "print" or "view". There is only one other "in wide use" version control system (that I know of) that omits the author information as well, and that is VSS/TFS. All other widely used ones show the author information in their "annotate/blame" output (namely ClearCase, CVS, Git, MKS/PTC, SVN, to name but a few). > and can be found by one additional click in the rare case where it > actually matters. The "rare click" to automated scripts means to query the author of the revision hash which needs N additional calls to fossil for one file, slowing things down considerably in contrast to fossil doing it by itself. > The username was therefore removed from the primary display in order > to reduce the amount of clutter and to make the output easier for > humans to read. Was this discussed on the mailing list and I missed it? Or was this just a decision by the developers themselves? > We will take your email as a feature request to add the username back > in as a run-time option. Apart from the compatibility issue, I'd be happy to have the option back. Unless this happens, we are stuck with version 1.24. Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Bellon _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
