[GRASS-user] raster history logs

[Hamish]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> Why isn't the raster history log (of any raster) similar with a
> vector's history log?

because the raster code is about 20 years older and hard to change now.
the command line history for raster modules is only widespread in the
last year or two.
 
> Whenever I create a subset of a map with r.mapcalc, its pre-r.mapcalc
> history is gone. Is it not a good idea to keep all actions logged?

you can manually add some metadata back with "r.support history=".

this is a wish for GRASS 7, see:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Metadata_Management


Hamish



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