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From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
To: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Listing changed identifiers with git log/diff
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:24:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA60EC2-13E9-4A1A-9A89-066CFF9CA36E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e37cdda3b73094f4f1a929dd181a64936a649c48.camel@yandex.ru>

Hi Konstantin,

> Le 29 juin 2020 à 06:18, Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> a écrit :
> 
> Git is able to recognise functions/variables changed, and even allows to see the history of such identifier with `-L` option.
> 
> But I couldn't find: how does one get a list of such identifiers in `git log` or `git diff`? This would be particularly useful for projects with odd requirements to have a list of identifiers changed in the commit message.
> 
> FTR, the diff text after the "@@…@@" does not cut it because for example if the diff is at the beginning of the function, then it would have a name of the previous function, i.e. not the one modified. As a hack, I tried passing an option `-U0`, but that didn't help, for one-line identifiers it still shows the name of the prev. identifier.

As far as I'm aware this is a limitation of the diff machinery.
I agree with you that it would be really nice if it could work as you describe...

Cheers,

Philippe.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-29 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-29 10:18 Listing changed identifiers with git log/diff Konstantin Kharlamov
2020-06-29 19:24 ` Philippe Blain [this message]
2020-06-30  7:00   ` Konstantin Kharlamov

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