Re: [RFC] git blame-tree

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:40:14PM +0000, Will Palmer wrote:

> Coincidentally, I'm doing a similar thing in a shell script at the
> moment. Unfortunately, no tree-object is involved: I'm instead using the
> output from "git diff" on two different branches to generate a list of
> files I care about. How hard would it be to accept a nul-delimited list
> of filenames via stdin, rather than from a tree? If I'm reading this
> right, it looks like a pretty trivial change.

My planned rewrite will take arbitrary pathspecs, so you can ask for a
subset of the project files, not just a specific tree, on the
command-line.  Which may be enough for your purposes (coupled with
xargs). But it would also be easy enough to take rev options on stdin
for very large cases that would exceed the usual command-line limits.

> (I couldn't get the existing patch to apply, myself.. I assume I'm
> just doing something wrong as I don't need to use "git am" very
> often.)

It's also possible I screwed something up in posting it. If you describe
the problem, I might be able to help.

-Peff