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RE: RE: Re: blame to show list of revisions that changed a line

From: Gleason, Todd <tgleason_at_impac.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:23:40 -0800

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Becroft [mailto:Daniel.Becroft_at_supercorp.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:16 PM
> To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: blame to show list of revisions that changed a line
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:02 AM
> > To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: blame to show list of revisions that changed a line
> >
> > No, TSVN doesn't do the walk itself. I've thought of
> > implementing the walk myself in TSVN so we could add buttons
> > to TortoiseBlame for stepping through all revisions, but this
> > could cause problems with very big files (we'd either have to
> > store each revision of the file in a temp file, or worse keep
> > everything in memory). Now imagine that for files > 10 MB in size...
>
> That's kind of the approach that the Google SVNTimeLapse utility does. It
> doesn't do the blame information down the side, but it provides a slider
> to, um, 'slide' between revisions, switching which revision(s) are being
> compared.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/svn-time-lapse-view/
>
> I've always thought that that was a good idea, but implemented in a clunky
> manner.

Why choose one or the other? Consider an "Advanced Blame" feature where TSVN would do the walk and offer TortoiseBlame more information.

Having some sort of SVNTimeLapse capability built into TSVN would be useful as well.

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