On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:24:23AM -0400, mark benedetto king wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:16:49AM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> > The reason for (X < Y) being an error is that it would introduce a
> > confusion about which version of the file is to be annotated: FILE@X or
> > FILE@Y. It would be possible to write a forward-looking annotator which
> > says who was the next person to change each line of this old file, and, for
> > that, "-rX:Y" (X < Y) would be appropriate.
>
> What a wonderful tool! "Who deleted the check for NULL?".
I'd like to have such a tool, and it does seem to be reasonably easy to
implement, too. I deleted the check for X < Y (which, BTW, says
"preceed" when it should say "precede"), tweaked some of the rest of the
logic a bit, and it seemed to work.
I have a few questions about the details:
* The "natural" implementation leads to all lines being displayed as
"next changed" in the end revision unless they've been changed
between start and end, just like normal blame displays all lines as
last changed in the start revision unless they've been changed
between start and end. It makes a lot less sense for forward
annotation, though. What's the right solution?
Really, you don't want to annotate a line with a revision unless the
line was (a) actually changed in that revision and (b) in the range
you're interested in. So how about we simply leave the revision and
author columns blank unless the line has been changed in a revision
Z where X<Z and Z<=Y?
* Should it be simply -rX:Y with X < Y (actually, the current
implementation seems to require -rY:X for this), or should there be
an extra --forward option? It makes a difference when the question
you want to ask is "who next changed this code after revision X",
where the syntax would be either "-rX:HEAD" or "-rX --forward".
With decisions on these, I'll send a patch.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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Received on Fri Oct 24 10:58:52 2003