Sometimes you need to know not only what was changed in a file, but also who made those
changes. This view displays the revision and the author that changed every line in a file.
Just click on a line in the editor panel where the file is opened to see the revision in which
the line was last modified. The same revision is highlighted in the History
view and you can also see all the lines that were changed in the same revision
highlighted in the editor panel. Also, the entries of the Annotations
view corresponding to that revision are highlighted. Therefore, the
Annotations view, History view, and
annotations editor panel are all synchronized. Clicking on a line in one of them highlights
the corresponding lines in the other two.
The following options can be configured in the
Show Annotation dialog box:
- From Revision Section
- Select the revision from which to start computing the annotation. If you press the
History button, the
History dialog box is displayed, which allows you to
select a revision.
- To Revision Section
- Select the ending revision by choosing between the HEAD
revision or specify it in the Other text box . If you press the
History button, the
History dialog box is displayed, which allows you to
select a revision.
- Encoding
- Select the encoding to be used when the annotation is computed. For each line of text,
the SVN Client looks through the history of the file to be annotated see when it was
last modified, and by whom. It is required that it is in the form of a text file.
Therefore, encoding is needed to properly decode and read the file content. By default,
the encoding of the operating system is used.
- Ignore MIME type
- If enabled, the file is treated as a text file and ignores what the SVN system infers
from the svn:mime-type property.
- Ignore line endings
- If enabled, the differences in line endings are ignored when the annotation is
computed.
- Ignore whitespaces
- If enabled, it allows you to specify how the whitespace changes should be handled.
When enabled, you can then choose between two options:
Tip: Enabling any of these ignore options can help you better
determine the last time a meaningful change was made to a given line of text.
After you configure the options and press
OK, the annotations will be
computed and the
Annotations view is displayed, where all the users
that modified the selected resource will be presented, along with the specific lines and
revision numbers modified by each user.
Note: If the file has a very long history,
the computation of the annotation data can take a long time to process.