Thus said Jan Nijtmans on Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:38:05 +0100:

> All joel did  was remove an if() around those  lines, thereby changing
> the  indent.  Does  that  make  joel the  author?  I  think  not!  The
> "diff-eolws" branch gives the correct  answer. Your addition gives the
> correct answer after pressing the "Ignore Whitespace" button.

It makes Joel  the author of the  most recent change to  that line, yes,
and  Fossil has  not lost  the history  of who  made the  non-whitespace
changes. Also, clicking  the button to reveal  the non-whitespace change
is no more ``correct'' than if Joel had instead changed ``Listening'' to
``listening'' on  one of those  lines. It would  still show Joel  as the
``author'' of that line, but really  he simply made a minor modification
to it  while drh  was the  original author.  Should Fossil  be concerned
about authors of bytes in annotate/blame?

What is the ``correct answer'' if not the current line of text that 
exists in checkin a2e7472d0fa04132?

Andy
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