On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:39:11AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, I know: how about an 'annotate diff' combination command, that > > shows a unidiff, but also marks each + and - line with the person > > responsible for that change? > > > > Doesn't help if you are looking at a file and wondering generally > > how it came to look the way it does, very very cool if you know that > > something has appeared or disappeared (and thus have some reference > > point), and want to know what happened. > > Clever. And (in retrospect, anyway) an obvious idea. I wonder why > it's not been done before (that I know about, anyway).
Because there has been historically like zero investment into data visualization for VCS... > I'd guess you wouldn't always want the person. I suspect there's some > better default one could come up with (person/date, truncated hash, or > something). But that's just a detail. Yeah, presumably it's like annotate, you want an "automate" version that just gives you the revid, plus some user-friendly version that pretty-prints something about that revision. -- Nathaniel -- Eternity is very long, especially towards the end. -- Woody Allen _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
