GNU bug report logs - #1163
23.0.60; With SVN, vc-annotate doesn't display the date for each line

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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob <at> snap.net.nz>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; With SVN, vc-annotate doesn't display the date for each line
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:28:48 +1300

With SVN, vc-annotate just displays the revision number for each line.
With CVS, it also displays the date that the line was last changed, which
can be useful to know.  The date is output from "svn annotate" when the
option "-v" is used.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob <at> snap.net.nz>
Cc: 1163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1163: 23.0.60; With SVN, vc-annotate doesn't display the date for each line
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:08:32 -0400

Nick Roberts wrote:

> With SVN, vc-annotate just displays the revision number for each line.

This was also the case in Emacs 22, so I suggest this is a wishlist
item that does not need to be fixed for 23.1.

> With CVS, it also displays the date that the line was last changed, which
> can be useful to know.  The date is output from "svn annotate" when the
> option "-v" is used.

Message #19 received at 1163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob <at> snap.net.nz>
Cc: 5427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 1163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5427: vc-annotate inconsistent output format
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 13:56:45 +0200

Nick Roberts <nickrob <at> snap.net.nz> writes:

> With SVN, vc-annotate just displays the revision number for each line.
> With CVS, it also displays the date that the line was last changed, which
> can be useful to know.  The date is output from "svn annotate" when the
> option "-v" is used.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

This is still the case in Emacs 29, but since basically git won, it'll
probably take an SVN enthusiast to get this fixed.

Adding -v indeed gives the time:

     1      larsi 2022-05-05 13:46:34 +0200 (Thu, 05 May 2022) This is foo.
     2      larsi 2022-05-05 13:46:41 +0200 (Thu, 05 May 2022) Yes.

But that's too massive to display, so vc-svn-annotate-command would have
to implement a filter to reformat that in a more sensible way.  It
shouldn't be a lot of work -- the person implementing this could look
at, say, vc-cvs-annotate-command as a model for how to write the filter.

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