Re: Following renames

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2006, 22:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603261422280.15714@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550603261122m5e680c62ye1290f3e601e947e@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Marco Costalba wrote:

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> 
> FIRST WAY
> 
> After annotating a file history (double click on a file name in
> bottom-right window or directly from tree view), you see the whole
> file annotated. If you have the diff window open you see also the
> corresponding patch (scrolled to selected file name).

The problem is that this step is already _way_ too expensive.

I don't want to work with any tool that makes "Step 1" take a minute or two for a project that has a few years of history. Try it on the linux historic project with some file that gets lots of modifications.

In other words, starting off with "annotate" is MUCH too expensive. You should start off basically with "git-whatchanged".

		Linus