[Monotone-devel] [RFC] change 'mtn annotate <file>' behaviour

[Koen Kooi]

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Hi,

Background:
I now have a small tree where annotating a file doesn't take 3 hours (yes, 
seriously, 3
hours), and I noticed something strange:

powerbook-wlan:~/Projects/docs koen$ mtn annotate packaged-staging.xml
<snip>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: <chapter>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d:       <title>Conclusions</title>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: <section>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d:       <title>Current state</title>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: <para>
be4c14599dfcde6e129d4ad193dd503a76c6c3d4: </para>
be4c14599dfcde6e129d4ad193dd503a76c6c3d4: </section>
45e665c8effc8f8890d73a6e0d8752d084c33333:
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: <section>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d:       <title>How to proceed from 
here</title>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: <para>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: </para>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: </section>
45e665c8effc8f8890d73a6e0d8752d084c33333:
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d:
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d: </chapter>
5bdd8a0380f4636873f40403b6935b86b21cc22d:
45e665c8effc8f8890d73a6e0d8752d084c33333: </book>

That's not very informative nor usefull without extra sed+awk+mtn voodo, but I 
was bored
so I tried the --brief option to see what that does:

powerbook-wlan:~/Projects/docs koen$ mtn annotate packaged-staging.xml --brief
<snip>
5bdd8a03.. by koen 2006-08-13: <chapter>
                             :  <title>Conclusions</title>
                             : <section>
                             :  <title>Current state</title>
                             : <para>
be4c1459.. by koen 2006-08-13: </para>
                             : </section>
45e665c8.. by koen 2006-08-13:
5bdd8a03.. by koen 2006-08-13: <section>
                             :  <title>How to proceed from here</title>
                             : <para>
                             : </para>
                             : </section>
45e665c8.. by koen 2006-08-13:
5bdd8a03.. by koen 2006-08-13:
                             : </chapter>
                             :
45e665c8.. by koen 2006-08-13: </book>

Wow, that actually looks like the output I'd expect from an annotate tool!

My proposition: make '--brief' default and make the current behaviour available 
under
'--only-revs'. Comments?


regards,

Koen




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