On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:05:35PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > * It's more descriptive. ("annotate" is counter-intuitive, really; it
> > sounds like a command to attach a note to a revision, or something.)
>
> Yeah, what he said.
>
> We're trying to preserve the best parts of CVS, but the choice of the
> word "annotate" is one of the worst. We will have it as a synonym,
> but it's such a bad name that we chose not to preserve that particular
> legacy (as far as the official name of the command goes).
I was gearing up to write my thoughts on why it should be "annotate"
and not "blame" until I read this post.
If it is available as a synonym so folks can use "svn annotate" from the
command line but its *real* name under the hood is "svn blame" (call it
foobarxxx as far as I am concerned). I just wanted it to be somewhat
transparent to CVS & Clearcase users.
--John Cavanaugh
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Received on Fri Aug 30 08:15:58 2002