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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Cc: gitzilla@gmail.com, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:41:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7hp4n6qn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41f08ee11003220031p6fda651eycff2641df10864da@mail.gmail.com> (Bo Yang's message of "Mon\, 22 Mar 2010 15\:31\:27 +0800")

Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> writes:

>> When you want to know where the first few lines of Makefile
>> came from, and if blame says the first line came from 2731d048, that
>> really means that between the revision you started digging from and the
>> found revision, there is no commit that touched that particular line, but
>> equally importantly, that before that found revision, there wasn't a
>> corresponding line in that file---blame stopped exactly because there is
>> nobody before that found revision that the line can be blamed on.
> ...
> Yes, this is not satisfying. But as I understand, the line level
> history browser will do more than just this. It will not stop on 'step
> 4', it can follow the change history recursively and deeply, to find
> more.

I am actually questioning the existence of "recursively and deeply to find
more"; the reason blame stopped at a particular commit is exactly because
there is no more---otherwise it wouldn't have stopped there but kept
digging deeper.

That is what I meant in the message you are responding to, quoted at the
top of this message.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-20  9:18 GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser Bo Yang
2010-03-20 11:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-20 13:10   ` Bo Yang
2010-03-20 13:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-21  6:03       ` Bo Yang
2010-03-20 13:36     ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-21  6:05       ` Bo Yang
2010-03-20 20:35 ` Alex Riesen
2010-03-20 20:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-21  6:10     ` Bo Yang
2010-03-20 21:58   ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-21  6:16     ` Bo Yang
2010-03-21 13:19       ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-22  3:48         ` Bo Yang
2010-03-22  4:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-22  4:34             ` Bo Yang
2010-03-22  5:32               ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-22  7:31                 ` Bo Yang
2010-03-22  7:41                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-03-22  7:52                     ` Bo Yang
2010-03-22  8:10                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-23  6:01                       ` Bo Yang
2010-03-23 10:08                         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-23 10:38                           ` Bo Yang
2010-03-23 11:22                             ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-23 12:23                               ` Bo Yang
2010-03-23 13:49                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-23 15:23                                   ` Bo Yang
2010-03-23 19:57                                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-23 21:51                                       ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-24  2:30                                       ` Bo Yang
2010-03-23 12:02                             ` Peter Kjellerstedt
2010-03-23 18:57                         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-24  2:39                           ` Bo Yang
2010-03-24  4:02                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-22 10:39                 ` Alex Riesen
2010-03-22 15:05                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-22  3:52         ` Bo Yang
2010-03-22 15:48           ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-22 18:21             ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-22 18:38               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-22 19:26                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-22 20:21                   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-22 19:24           ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-23  6:08             ` Bo Yang
2010-03-23  6:27             ` Bo Yang
     [not found]           ` <201003282120.40536.trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-03-29  4:14             ` Bo Yang
2010-03-29 18:42               ` Thomas Rast
2010-03-30  2:52                 ` Bo Yang
2010-03-30  9:07                   ` Michael J Gruber
2010-03-30  9:38                     ` Michael J Gruber
2010-03-30 11:10                     ` Bo Yang
2010-03-30  9:10                   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-30 11:15                     ` Bo Yang

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