Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: release goals for Bazaar 1.1

[John A Meinel]

Mikhael Goikhman wrote:

> Some of the names suggested above slightly describe the discussed command
> (linehistory, colophon, commentary), but may be confused with a different
> functionality, and other names simply do not describe the command.
> For some reason folks suppose the purpose of the command is to show the
> creator of each line, however the real purpose is to show the [last]
> revision description, i.e. fully qualified name, date, creator, summary.
> The creator may be (and is often) constant among revision descriptions.
>
> "linedesc" would be more accurate. However, "annotate" sounds even better
> to me, and is familar to cvs users.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
>  
Most people think of annotate as an action. Like I want to put an 
annotation onto this file, rather than thinking of it as telling the 
revision control system to generate some sort of annotated version of 
the file.

But you're right, it is familiar to cvs (and apparently clear case) users.

John
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