Can "bzr annotate" be sped up?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 06/17/2011 02:36 PM, Francis Devereux wrote:
> On 17 Jun 2011, at 12:04, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> Other bits that caused feature bloat (and lack of development), were
>> wanting to support alternative annotation mechanisms. Such as "bzr
>> annotate --ignore-whitespace", or "bzr annotate --lefthand-only".
> 
> --ignore-whitespace sounds like a great feature, we have some files that have had EOL conversions so we have to jump through hoops to annotate them (e.g. using a revision range that ends before the whitespace change). Has it been implemented yet? I tried it with bzr 2.3.1 and got "bzr: ERROR: no such option: --ignore-whitespace", and it's also not mentioned on http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-reference/annotate-help.html
> 
> Francis
> 

It hasn't been implemented.
I realize I was a bit unclear, so I'll try to rephrase. Wanting to
support things like '--ignore-whitespace' slowed down implementing an
annotation cache, such that neither got implemented.

As it stands now, --ignore-whitespace wouldn't be too hard to implement,
but you have quite a few api's that need to be changed to pass the new
flag around.

John
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