From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bo Yang Subject: Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:39:33 +0800 Message-ID: <41f08ee11003231939y390ea4cajdb73d09cf2dd6329@mail.gmail.com> References: <41f08ee11003202316w2fddc5f4jebda47f325451577@mail.gmail.com> <41f08ee11003212048q1950eb3s95f1caf7ba640874@mail.gmail.com> <7vfx3tvv9y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <41f08ee11003212134s586aa71cs23255d02f38d53d1@mail.gmail.com> <7vhbo8syyf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <41f08ee11003220031p6fda651eycff2641df10864da@mail.gmail.com> <7v7hp4n6qn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100322081003.GA26535@progeny.tock> <41f08ee11003222301y569a5972q3c67d10c77abe27a@mail.gmail.com> <20100323185745.GA1382@progeny.tock> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , gitzilla@gmail.com, Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 24 03:39:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuGVP-00011O-UZ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:39:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754262Ab0CXCjf convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:39:35 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.25]:36358 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754208Ab0CXCje convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:39:34 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so1746941qwh.37 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:39:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lZWlMUgNp1TEafBh38wLlX3O3IO66pWwPx6K+gJsbMU=; b=ogM4p7qsOdV+dtZzna/uHC65cuZJZEqwg2AeV86D2ry5J3HOt8jtMo5jKXA9tJLWKb 3kqsa1uzJjSqbqgYrMnr2qOOs5yLmM1TbVegW85ieo0BcurPYqyVo48Gir0Bh6sfXpyt 8/oq6rnqRGmbdXeyRVoWmU0F+Hyf5rTVfy7JU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SBfy5W11yjVjiQksIFgGrHualgwiV//GnE16nioJkmmtGoGOaQQ+z1z0oXxTmmPt90 93443l3MP8SU2T0tYlbvclGINluudeIb2z8bt3l4bhkYTh9+Bw78kBPxlKHf+EeDcdBC Kxl3sVLgwsjJTiBkrbdG3Gpp5oNzL5VroJ+Ak= Received: by 10.229.107.29 with SMTP id z29mr1000506qco.42.1269398373156; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:39:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100323185745.GA1382@progeny.tock> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: HI, On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Jonathan Nieder w= rote: > > If you can make a heuristic along these lines this work well, I think= it > would be great. =A0I imagine it might work very well for commits that= made > nice, small changes (like many of those in git.git). =A0Jakub pointed= out > some of the difficulties, and I like to hope your idea of =93when in = doubt, > include more lines=94 may work well in many cases in git.git still. > > Good luck, and thank you for taking my crazy ideas seriously. :) > > Regards, > Jonathan > > [1] See v1.4.4-rc1~2 (Merge branch 'jc/pickaxe', 2006-11-07) and the > commits preceding it. =A0About that series, Junio wrote: > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Actually the plan is to make it do _true_ pickaxe, > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0although it will most likely end up either in dustbin = or > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0replace blame. > > It replaced blame. > > I am not actually sure, but I assume =93true pickaxe=94 refers to the > goals described in > and the linked-to message. I have looked over the article and the message from Linus, it really help me very much. The message and article pointed out most of the things a line level tool should do, and I am happy to find that it is similar with my proposal. :) Thanks again for your precious advice and I think I can come up a better proposal, now. Thanks! Regards! Bo