Rev 4526: NEWS about fixing bug #387952, and about improvements in 'bzr annotate' in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/1.17-rework-annotate

[John Arbash Meinel]

At http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/1.17-rework-annotate

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revno: 4526
revision-id: john at arbash-meinel.com-20090707025325-bf2s89nclg19pibu
parent: john at arbash-meinel.com-20090706213140-dsyexxaynqaxea8d
committer: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
branch nick: 1.17-rework-annotate
timestamp: Mon 2009-07-06 21:53:25 -0500
message:
  NEWS about fixing bug #387952, and about improvements in 'bzr annotate'
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=== modified file 'NEWS'
--- a/NEWS	2009-07-02 04:49:28 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	2009-07-07 02:53:25 +0000
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
   diverged-branches`` when a push fails because the branches have
   diverged.  (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #269477)
 
+* Annotate would sometimes 'latch on' to trivial lines, causing important
+  lines to be incorrectly annotated. (John Arbash Meinel, #387952)
+
 * Automatic format upgrades triggered by default stacking policies on a
   1.16rc1 (or later) smart server work again.
   (Andrew Bennetts, #388675)
@@ -145,7 +148,12 @@
 Improvements
 ************
 
-``bzr ls`` is now faster. On OpenOffice.org, the time drops from 2.4
+* ``bzr annotate`` can now be significantly faster. The time for
+  ``bzr annotate NEWS`` is down to 7s from 22s in 1.16. Files with long
+  histories and lots of 'duplicate insertions' will be improved more than
+  others. (John Arbash Meinel, Vincent Ladeuil)
+
+* ``bzr ls`` is now faster. On OpenOffice.org, the time drops from 2.4
   to 1.1 seconds. The improvement for ``bzr ls -r-1`` is more
   substantial dropping from 54.3 to 1.1 seconds. (Ian Clatworthy)