From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: xmeng <xmeng@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Check out git-author
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 01:19:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908051956.GA8987@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a3b0f232ec56517d4db43c6bd6ebb63@cs.wisc.edu>
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 06:05:13PM -0500, xmeng wrote:
> The problem with git-blame is that it only reports the last author/commit
> that changed the line, regardless of the magnitude of the change. Sometimes,
> the last author may only change a tiny part of the code and should not be
> blamed. I developed a built-in tool called "git-author" to address this
> problem. Git-author is designed to track the complete development history of
> a line. For the same line of code:
>
> $ git author -c -L 2235,2235 fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> [...]
Have you tried "git log -L 2235,2235:fs/ext4/mballoc.c --
fs/ext4/mballoc.c"? Can you compare your approach to that of "log -L"?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 5:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-07 23:05 Check out git-author xmeng
2014-09-08 5:19 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-09-08 7:16 ` Torsten Bögershausen
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