Can "bzr annotate" be sped up?

[Alexander Belchenko]

17.06.2011 14:04, John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> 1) Annotate in 'reverse' mode. Forward mode is a bit more obvious. You
> start at a rev, mark all lines as 'modified in rev 1'. Then grab the
> second rev, and lines that match are left alone, lines which are new are
> marked 'rev2'. Then on to rev3, etc.
> 
> In reverse mode, you start at rev3 and mark all lines as 'unknown'. Then
> you compare with rev2. All lines that match are left as 'unknown', new
> lines in rev3 are marked 'rev3'. That isn't particularly hard, the
> trickier part is dealing with merge-parents. (Lines are new in the
> current text vs the first parent, but that is because they came from the
> second parent.)

Very interesting, thanks for sharing it. I think reverse mode is very
important, esp. if the system want to support history horizons. Then
you don't have access to older revisions, so reverse order should work
better, IMO.