On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:57 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Here's an experiment to keep the change history of lines in annotate's output:
> 
> annotate.diff
>       Switch from patch to ed
> 
> annotate2.diff
>       Switch to ed-like perl script that alternatively appends to lines
>       instead of changing them.
> 
> Please tell me if this is of any practical use to you (apart from showing 
> "interesting"). Jean, how much does Quian speed suffer (whether -a is used 
> doesn't have a significant impact)?

Assuming the performance difference is minimal, I would prefer the perl
script version.  From a packaging standpoint quilt already requires
perl.  It currently doesn't require ed, so I'd prefer to avoid adding
more dependencies.

That python rewrite is starting to look good... ;)

josh



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