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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Isabella Stephens <istephens@atlassian.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, sunshine@sunshineco.com, peff@peff.net,
	bturner@atlassian.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blame: add --fuzzy-lines command line option
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:15:07 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtvyme8pg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171026021929.1346-1-istephens@atlassian.com> (Isabella Stephens's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:19:29 +1100")

Isabella Stephens <istephens@atlassian.com> writes:

> If the -L option is used to specify a line range in git blame, and the
> end of the range is past the end of the file, git will fail with a fatal
> error. It may instead be desirable to perform a git blame for the line
> numbers in the intersection of the file and the specified line range.

Even though erroring out upon such input was done as a deliberate
design decision, in retrospect, I do not think the design decision
made much sense.

The code already takes a nonsense input and tries to make best sense
of it, e.g. "-L10,6" is interpreted as "-L6,10" instead of erroring
out.  So if we were to do this kind of change, I suspect that it may
be better to do so unconditionally without introducing a new option.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-26  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-26  2:19 [PATCH] blame: add --fuzzy-lines command line option Isabella Stephens
2017-10-26  6:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-26  7:01   ` [PATCH v2] blame: prevent error if range ends past end of file Isabella Stephens
2017-10-26  8:48     ` Jacob Keller
2017-10-26 22:50       ` Isabella Stephens
2017-10-26 15:31     ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-10-26 23:37       ` Isabella Stephens
2017-10-27  0:56       ` [PATCH v3] " Isabella Stephens
2017-10-27  1:58         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-27  2:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-27  6:18           ` Isabella Stephens
2017-10-27  6:56             ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-26  7:45               ` [PATCH v4 0/2] blame and log: " istephens
2018-04-26  7:45                 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] blame: " istephens
2018-04-27  0:50                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-27  1:42                     ` Isabella Stephens
2018-04-27  2:09                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-27  4:15                         ` Isabella Stephens
2018-05-02  2:47                           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-29  5:30                             ` [PATCH v5 0/2] blame and log: " istephens
2018-05-29  5:30                               ` [PATCH] blame: " istephens
2018-05-30  8:45                                 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-05-31  5:07                                   ` Isabella Stephens
2018-05-29  5:30                               ` [PATCH] log: prevent error if line " istephens
2018-05-30  8:59                                 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-26  7:45                 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] " istephens
2017-10-26  7:08   ` [PATCH] blame: add --fuzzy-lines command line option Isabella Stephens

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