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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: 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: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:29:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1s5k16zj.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190109154828.1b19dbb4@gnomeregan.cam.corp.google.com> (Barret Rhoden's message of "Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:48:28 -0500")

Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> writes:

> 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.  

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-10 22:29 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 [this message]
2019-01-14 15:19           ` Barret Rhoden
2019-01-14 17:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-14 18:26               ` Randall S. Becker
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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