Re: blame and merge tracking

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007, Stefan Küng wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I understand the docs correctly here:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/func-spec.html#commutative-author-and-rev
> the blame command will only provide the original author and revision
> information for each line?

Yes.

> If it's possible, I'd like to have *all* authors and revisions reported
> in the callback function.

The API will definitely provide more information. This is already
mentioned in the design spec (we caught this when you brought it up
previously :)

http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/design.html#audit-operations

> A quick scan of the blame code shows that this
> information is available at no additional cost (as always: if I
> understand this correctly).
> The reason I'd like to have this information ready in the callback is
> because my blame app (TortoiseBlame) could then show all the log
> messages (the original and all the merging messages too) for every line.

For each line, is the following sufficient?:

a) The original author and revision.
b) The merging author and revision.

Or did you want something different?