Re: How often does one do annotate?

While frequency is an important measure, I think the *relative* frequency of
operations is more important. For example, we definitely don't want to
impact simple *retrieval* at the cost of "blame" support. As a result, we
probably would not want to use a system whereby we store [in the repository]
line-oriented diffs for text files.

Personally, I use blame maybe once every couple months. I always use ViewCVS
to do it, as I don't have the "cvs ann" command in my head.

Cheers,
-g

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Dave Glowacki wrote:
> Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > How often does one do annotate?
> > I think i've used it twice, ever.
>
> I probably use 'cvs ann' at least once a month. I'm involved
> in several medium-sized projects (500-1000 files, averaging
> 700-1000 lines each) and I find it useful to figure out either
> the context in which a particular change was made or to determine
> what the file looked like before the change was made.
>
> For either one, I'll do 'cvs ann' to find the revision where
> the line or lines I'm interested in were changed.
>
> To get the context, I'll do 'cvs diff -r<rev-1> -r<rev>'.
>
> To find out what the file looked like before the change,
> I'll either do 'cvs ann -r<rev-1> | less' or even
> 'cvs update -r<rev-1>'.
>
>
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