Re: can vc-annotate display changes from one day

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 01/25/2016 06:08 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>     > vc-annotate uses the dates in the output. Which were recently
>     > changed to not include the time in Hg backend.
>
> Recently is when? Because I seem now to remember that the behavior was
> different a while ago.

It was one of the changes you asked for (and received) in 
http://debbugs.gnu.org/21805.

>    > Other backends do the same, so I didn't think it to be a major problem.
>
> Since I also changed from Xemacs to GNU emacs and from RCS to HG at the
> same time some month ago, I can't say anything about RCS in GNU emacs.

By "other backends", I meant Git and Bazaar.

> I find the new behavior counter intuitive. Right now I have to check
> almost every hour the changes I did in my files and vc-annotate does not
> display those changes.

It just fails to distinguish them with colors, right? The changes are 
still displayed (say, with commit numbers on the side).

> But the 3rd package ahg uses annotate in a way that looks more natural
> to me, it is able to distinguish the different commits I made during a
> day, but it lacks features vc-annotate offers.

How does it look? Please send a screenshot.

> Is there any way to have, at least optionally, such a behavior in
> vc-annotate?

Having both short dates in the output and per-minute commit highlighting 
granularity is not trivial to implement.

> Or am I the only one to complain....

So far - yes.