Can "bzr annotate" be sped up?

[Francis Devereux]

On 17 Jun 2011, at 14:23, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

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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".
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>> --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
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>> Francis
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> 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.

It's fairly clear on a second read, I was probably just misreading in my excitement about a potentially cool feature ;-)

Thanks,

Francis