Re: limit the number of log entries displayed by C-x v l

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Having tried it on Bzr I see that it's still sufficiently slow with that
>>> backend, that I might prefer to see the complete log so I can then
>>> navigate it to see the various revisions I'm interested in, rather than
>>> get a single-comment N times.
>> Then one can just do C-x v l ...
>
> Good point.
>
>> The reason I found your idea to show a single entry interesting: with
>> the limiting of C-x v l output that we do now by default, you can ask
>> for a log in vc-annotate and not get it if the log entry is old enough.
>> It's rather nice to see exactly the entry you asked for.
>> So what should we do?
>
> Change vc-annotate's code so that if the file's log is already displayed
> in the *vc-change-log* buffer, it just jumps to the appropriate entry,
> otherwise it does what your code did (i.e. ask the backend for just
> that revision's log).

Have a look at xhg-annotate mode in DVC (screenshot).
http://tinyurl.com/ycen32l


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