[Matt Mackals idea] (was: hg annotate does not follow renaming via hg mv)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

   > Hi


   > The last command fails since testnew.org was not in rev3 (it was but
   > with a different name). I hoped hg annotate would following renaming but
   > it does not or what do I miss.


   > Hg help annotate 

   > Tells me 

   > --no-follow           don't follow copies and renames

   > So I understand the default behavior is to follow.

I just found out about 
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2012-March/042407.html

,----
| But we might eventually implement something like:
| 
|  hg annotate -r 2519^ "set:follow(somefile)"
`----

But as far as I can see this was never done. Am I right?
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