Re: address@hidden: Re: [Fwd: vc-annotate causes Emacs to die]]

[Richard Stallman]

    I find that seeing such changes often helps me start debugging with a
    working hypothesis, which can shorten debugging time considerably
    (that works pretty often, actually).

If that will help you investigate, then it is a useful thing to do.
Andre, could you show Gerd the change in question?