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Re: annotate vs blame

From: Paul Smith <pausmith_at_nortelnetworks.com>
Date: 2002-08-29 22:19:57 CEST

%% Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:

  gr> Noel Yap wrote:

>> Like I said before, IMHO, blame is counter-productive
>> due to its negative connotations.
>>
>> Does anyone else feel either way about the name for
>> this functionality?

  gr> i think 'svn blame' is a lot more descriptive than 'svn annotate',
  gr> i think it's more appropriate considering the most common use case
  gr> for the command (like cmike, i often use it to see who wrote the
  gr> buggy code i'm correcting so i can yell at them), and i think it's
  gr> a hell of a lot more amusing.

Yah, but don'tcha just hate it when it turns out it was you who wrote
it? That always crushes my buzz.

I know! We should have "svn assign-blame"! That's even more useful I
think.

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