When I am busy hacking on bugs (which is about the only thing I do these days when I have time for hacking …) a thing which I use very, very frequently is cvs/svn annotate in the viewcvs web interface. For files as big as gtktreeview.c (almost 15000 lines), it is impossible to remember every little detail of the code; why is it like this? which parts are affected when I change this? Before changing things I usually check the history of that code portion using annotate, to see what kind of changes were made before. With a few little clicks I can find reasonings, old bug reports with stack traces and test cases. I know you can use svn annotate from the command line, but having it in a web interface with cross reference is much more convenient. For me annotate in a terminal is useless. I was pretty disappointed to see that on svn.gnome.org, annotation is not possible in the web interface. Is there any way this can be made possible? I am pretty sure a lot of other people would also appreciate to have this feature back, since it is so useful for tracing back changes. (This has been filed as #395908 — together with the request for the old “theme” of the revision log page, which is much more clear IMHO). For now I continue using cvs.gnome.org for this, but at some point the amount of changes between the last cvs version and svn will be so big that this won't be useful anymore …