Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:
> After looking through the FAQ and browsing through the
> archives, I didn't see this question, so here it goes:
>
> AFAIK, subversion attempts to have the same commands
> and functionality as CVS but it differs when it comes
> to "blame". So it begs the question, "Why was the
> 'blame' command chosen over the more established (and,
> IMHO, less pessimistic) 'annotate' command?"
I'm not sure if I get credit for the idea to use 'blame' over
'annotate' -- I've always been under the impression that the idea was
mine, but I could be wrong...whatever -- but when I did suggest it, my
reasoning was as follows:
1) of all the uses for 'cvs annotate', the most common is probably
to find out not "what lines were last changed by Noel in this
file", but "who changed *this particular line* in this file".
2) of the general cases where I want to know who changed a
particular line in a file, I'm wanting to find the name of
someone I can add to my list of People To Strangle At the Nearest
Opportunity.
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Received on Thu Aug 29 20:31:52 2002