[Matt Mackals idea]

[Pierre-Yves David]

I don't know the specific of Matt proposal, but I remember that Denis 
Laxalde did some work about following piece of code that might match 
your need.

(I put him in CC.)

On 7/26/20 7:16 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>> "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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Pierre-Yves David