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

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:20:05 +0100

Simon Large wrote:
> 2008/11/17 Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>:
>> Lorenz wrote:
>>
>>> well, that would have been a realy nice feature 8-)
>> Yes, it would be :)
>>
>>> I think having a list of revisions that touched a line would be a
>>> great improvement all on its own (perhaps as a drop down list where
>>> the last changed revision is shown now).
>>>
>>> But that information is something I would like the command line client
>>> to provide too ... so I try to work up the courage to ask for that
>>> feature in the users_at_subversion... list 8-)
>> Great! And don't forget to ask whether you're allowed to open an issue
>> for it - otherwise it will get forgotten.
>>
>>> By the way, is the blame info computed client- or server-side?
>> Client-Side (mostly). But blame is faster with a new server because then
>> the server does a lot of the diffing so the client doesn't have to.
>
> Huh? Per-line history can only ever be done server-side until
> subversion turns into a distributed DVCS with full local history.

Nope - blame is client side. that's why it takes so long: it fetches the
file where it got first imported, then runs a diff of every revision the
file was changed.

Stefan

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