From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-x v g going further back in time? Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:16:03 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073602041 18261 80.91.224.253 (8 Jan 2004 22:47:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 08 23:47:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aeivo-0006ZC-00 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:47:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aejc5-0000iR-KB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:30:53 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mu.cis.ohio-state.edu Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pa2NwYqKn0hZOx/+OpvpSDpp+F0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119890 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15827 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15827 Benjamin Rutt writes: > I love C-x v g in a file managed by CVS, I can see exactly which user > finalized which line of the file, and on which date. This is > invaluable for answering the question of who to ask about different > lines of code. However, sometimes that's not enough to find out who > put that line of code there originally, as sometimes people make > whitespace changes, yet C-x v g only shows the last committer of a > line so sometimes the "whitespace changer" is not the "true author" of > that line. Is there any way to go back in time to see who committed a > given line earlier in time? Since I wrote this, I see C-x v g takes a prefix argument which can give the revision number. But I think it's useful also to be able to go incrementally backwards and forwards revisions, interactively, from within the *Annotate* buffer. I'll look at modifying vc*.el to support this idea. -- Benjamin