Re: [Monotone-devel] Annotate changes break tests?

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007, Thomas Moschny wrote:

> On Thursday 13 September 2007, William Uther wrote:
> >    It seems the recent annotate changes in
> > ae0a9c829c508851a9bcfbcc22d6b088ab472ff6 don't pass the test suite.
> > Is this because the tests were broken too?
>
> "Broken" is maybe too hard. Ralf brought back in sync the docs and mtn's
> behavior for annotate with and without --brief, and the tests also have to be
> fixed accordingly.
>
> But, while we are at it, the discrepancy between docs and behavior showed
> that --brief is really a bad name for that switch, so we should use something
> more intuitive like --only-revs (which would invert the meaning again, yes,
> the human readable form with author and date should be the default.)

Yes, I second that: --brief is really not the appropriate option name here.
Using --only-revs and then reverting my "fix" sounds reasonable.
Please go for it!

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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