[RFC] Workingstyle of different VCS systems

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 12.04.07 11:36:24, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 12.04.07 11:49:39, Kuba Ober wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >>> On 10.04.07 06:24:31, Kuba Ober wrote:
> >>>> On Thursday 05 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >>> Uhm, not its not. This should only show a listing of the file + the name
> >>> of the author of each line in front of the line. Nothing more.
> >> 3. If you need such a detailed history, it'd need to be something that has to 
> >> be set up in a project-specific way, e.g. in my projects I don't have it even 
> >> set up simply because I never needed that feature.
> > 
> > Aha, so aegis doesn't have a history of what part of a file was changed
> > by whom. Does it know who changed a file last time? I guess annotate
> > should be  an optional function.
> 
> Yes it should be optional, because (as I noted previously) our version 
> of p4d - which, I admit, is ancient and way overdue for an upgrade that 
> isn't going to happen :-( - does not support it either. At any rate I 
> don't think scripts can rely on it. It would be awesome if it could be 
> added at runtime (depending on the p4d version) but as long as it can 
> fail with an error message, that's fine with me.

Well, we can't support that atm, i.e. the plugin cannot decide during
runtime which interfaces it supports, but an action failing is always
possible.

Andreas

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