[issue794] a "forward annotate" would be nice to consider as a feature

[Michal Skrzypek]

New submission from Michal Skrzypek <michals at math.uni.lodz.pl>:

There already exists "hg annotate". What I'd find very useful is the version of
that command, "forward-annotate" that looks into the future instead of the past
and checks when particular line of the file were changed _after_ the given
state. This command would require the user to give the starting revision and
also an ending one. I don't know how to handle "branch then merge" events in the
history, but this also applies to a regular "hg annotate", so I suppose it needs
similar handling here.

Seems simple to implement (it will be probably very similar to the current
annotate command, even all the commandline switches seems relevant here), but
unfortunately I don't know much of the internals of Mercurial. Anyway, if
someone is interested, I am willing to help with the creation of such a feature,
so for example I can help with testing it.

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priority: wish
status: unread
title: a "forward annotate" would be nice to consider as a feature

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