GNU bug report logs - #22470
25.1.50; vc-annotate (HG) does not display changes within one day (colors)

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Message #28 received at 22470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>, 22470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22470: 25.1.50;
 vc-annotate (HG) does not display changes within one day (colors)
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. :)

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