Re: perhaps time to remove git_blame from gitweb, and git-annotate?

From: Martin Langhoff (CatalystIT) <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Oct 7, 2006, 05:37 UTC
Message-ID: <45273D16.7050205@catalyst.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20061006175234.41182.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov wrote:

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>>>Do people have reason to favor annotate over blame?  To keep
>>>existing people's scripts working I think we should add a small
>>>amount of code to blame.c to default to compatibility mode when
>>>the command is called as git-annotate at least for a while, but
>>>other than that I do not see much issue against scheduling for
>>>annotate's removal.
>>
>>+1. Although I would leave git-annotate in git, if only to meet 
>>expectations of new git users.
> 
> 
> I agree with Junio's assessment of the situation.

+1 -- I need to test that the switch to git-blame for git-cvsserver works well for Eclipse end users. Will try and fit that next week somehow ;-)

martin

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