Bazaar as Subversion replacement

[Martin Pool]

On 16 Jan 2007, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:33:37PM +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> > >>3 Inefficient 'bzr log filename' implementation.
> > >
> > >Point taken.  It's not too hard to fix (for filename.  directoryname is
> > >another case).  But people like me who don't use "log filename" don't
> > >find this limitation bothersome.  Is it possible that you're using "log
> > >filename" where "annotate" would work as well or better?
> > >
> > >  
> > One of the uses of this is to find out who last changed the file. In 
> > annotate we would have to go through the file to find the latest 
> > revision number. In svn we do svn log file | less and it completes 
> > immediately and we can see the most recent changes and who committed them.
> 
> svn log --limit=5 filename is also very useful, when you want to see
> the dates and log messages of the last five changes.  I think it is also
> faster than a full svn log, but I haven't actually tested that
> assumption.

There is a request for this, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/3659

It shouldn't be very hard.


-- 
Martin