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From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"'Barret Rhoden'" <brho@google.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>, "'Stefan Beller'" <stefanbeller@gmail.com>,
	"'Jeff Smith'" <whydoubt@gmail.com>,
	"'Jeff King'" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] blame: add the ability to ignore commits
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:26:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003c01d4ac36$bdf29470$39d7bd50$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfttvw2sv.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On January 14, 2019 12:46, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> writes:
> 
> > On 2019-01-10 at 14:29 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> > For instance, commit X does this:
> >> >
> >> > -foo(x,y);
> >> > +foo(x,y,z);
> >> >
> >> > Then commit Y comes along to reformat it:
> >> >
> >> > -foo(x,y,z);
> >> > +foo(x, y, z);
> >> >
> >> > And the history / rev-list for the file looks like:
> >> >
> >> > ---O---A---X---B---C---D---Y---E---F
> >> >
> >> > I want to ignore/skip Y and see X in the blame output.
> >>
> >> If you skip Y, the altered history would have "foo(x, y, z)" in E,
> >> "foo(x,y,z)" in X, and "foo(x,y)" in A.  If you start blaming from F,
> >> you'd get E as the commit that explains the latest state.  If you do
> >> not skip Y, you'd get Y.  I am not sure how you'd get X in either
> >> case.
> >
> > The way to do it is ...
> 
> Sorry, I made a too-fuzzy statement.  What I meant was, that unless you
are
> ignoring E, I do not know why you "would want to" attribute a line "foo(x,
y,
> z)" that appears in F to X.  Starting from X up to D (and to Y in real
history, but
> you are ignoring Y), the line was "foo(x,y,z)", after E, it is "foo(x, y,
z)".  I
> didn't mean to ask how you "would show" such a result---as I do not yet
> understand why you would want such a result to begin with.

From my own community, this came up also. The intent was to show everyone
who touched a particular line, throughout history, not just the current one.
Perhaps that is what Barret is going for.

Regards,
Randall


  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-14 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-07 21:30 [PATCH] blame: add the ability to ignore commits Barret Rhoden
2019-01-07 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-08 16:27   ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-08 18:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-09 20:48       ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-10 22:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-14 15:19           ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-14 17:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-14 18:26               ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
2019-01-14 19:03                 ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-15  6:08                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-09 21:21       ` Stefan Beller
2019-01-08 13:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-01-08 16:41   ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-08 18:04     ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-17 20:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Barret Rhoden
2019-01-17 20:29   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Move init_skiplist() outside of fsck Barret Rhoden
2019-01-18  9:25     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-01-18  9:45     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-01-18 17:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-18 20:59         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-01-18 21:30           ` Jeff King
2019-01-18 22:26             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-01-22  7:12               ` Jeff King
2019-01-22  9:46                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-01-22 17:54                   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-22 18:28                   ` Jeff King
2019-01-17 20:29   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] blame: add the ability to ignore commits and their changes Barret Rhoden
2019-01-18  9:47     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-01-18 17:33       ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-20 18:19     ` René Scharfe
2019-01-22 15:26       ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-22 18:14       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-22 19:35         ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-23 19:26           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-01 20:37             ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-17 20:29   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] blame: add a config option to mark ignored lines Barret Rhoden
2019-01-18 10:03     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-01-18  9:52   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] blame: add the ability to ignore commits Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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