Subject: bug#22470: 25.1.50; vc-annotate (HG) does not display changes within one day (colors)

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:43:24 -0500

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

>> Finally, at a very quick glance that ahg thing seems to colorize based
>> on revision number, not on age, which is a different scheme.
>
> I do wonder if aHg's approach is better.

ISTM that it's only useful if revision numbers are per-file, which is
what, RCS and CVS? (In git they aren't even sequential.)
And then only if the entire history spans less than a few days.

> The default palette mapping doesn't convey to me, personally, any
> particular information about time.

That seems an unrelated issue.

> Simply showing that these lines of code were produce by the same
> revision, and those and those by two different ones, seems more
> valuable anyway.

Oh, I see. Not for me, but each to his own. :)