hgweb: make annotate line revisions point to annotation for that rev

[Mathieu Clabaut]

On 9/29/06, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/29/06, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/29/06, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> wrote:
> > > To get to the annotation for an older version required several steps
> > > (click on the changeset link, find the file in the file list, click on
> > > annotate). Getting to the changeset from the annotate link is much
> > > easier. It might be nice to display the changeset description on the
> > > annotate page as well though.
> >
> > Getting to the changeset from the annotate link seems to required same
> > number of clicks now (click on the annotate link, click on the
> > changeset link). I can't see how it makes it easier.
> >
> > IMO, user will be more interested in the changeset where the change is
> > made. It's rather unusual for me to have to view and annotate page of
> > an older changeset.
> >
>
> I use it to see who is to blame for a particular change, so I have to
> go annotate several time back in time.

 It sounds like a very useful feature to me. I often use something
similar in the old days with CVS, vim and the associated
cvscommand.vim. I will provide the same functionality to HGannotate
under vim (somedays... :-) )
-mathieu