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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nick Snyder <nick@sourcegraph.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git blame --reverse doesn't find line in HEAD
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:22:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh8t3hiuq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+SQVf24rcQ1iKAQBW0Ky7Qm8zuF3Esw8qMKvG+KCbCA-mCcfA@mail.gmail.com> (Nick Snyder's message of "Wed, 6 Dec 2017 07:40:35 -0800")

Nick Snyder <nick@sourcegraph.com> writes:

> This can be reproduced on Linux and Mac. This behavior seems to be a bug.

Can you bisect to see when the feature stopped working as you expect?

Unlike a forward blame, where the command tries to find a commit
that is responsible for a line being in the final result (i.e.
typically, HEAD), a reverse blame is not about finding a commit
that is responsible for a line (that used to be in the oldest
commit) not being in a more recent codebase.  It finds up to which
commit each line survived without getting touched since the oldest
commit in the range.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-06 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-29  8:06 git blame --reverse doesn't find line in HEAD Nick Snyder
2017-12-06 15:40 ` Nick Snyder
2017-12-06 17:22   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-12-06 18:00     ` Nick Snyder
2017-12-07 17:02       ` Nick Snyder

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