From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Output from "git blame A..B -- path" for the bottom commit is misleading
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 10:28:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy4yazwss.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140509152935.GD18197@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 9 May 2014 11:29:35 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 07:04:05AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Arguably if the user explicitly limited the range, he knows what he's
>> looking at. Admittedly, I don't know offhand which options _will_
>> produce boundary commit indications: there may be some without explicit
>> range limitation, and we might also be talking about limiting through
>> shallow repos (git blame on a shallow repo is probably a bad idea in the
>> first place, but anyway).
>
> Yes, I was thinking mostly of "X..Y" types of ranges, which are probably
> the most common. I hadn't considered shallow repositories, and you can
> also hit the root commit as a boundary if you do not specify --root.
>
> I guess the question still in my mind is: what use does the identity of
> the boundary commit have? That is, whether you know ahead of time where
> the boundary is or not, is there ever a case where knowing its author
> and/or commit sha1 is a useful piece of information, as opposed to
> knowing that we hit a boundary at all?
>
> I could not think of one, but I may simply lack imagination.
Well, the original message was triggered by the same "I could not
think of one" from me ;-).
We may want to flip the default to do a more sanitised version of "-b"
that has been suggested earlier:
> ( 103)
> 7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 104) test_expect_...
> ( 105) test...
> 7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 106) git ...
> ( 107) test...
>
> which does away with the misleading information altogether.
and have another option to show the current default output for those
who would want that information.
But that will be a topic for post 2.0; I should start preparing for
the -rc3 soonish, so I'll stop here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-08 20:52 Output from "git blame A..B -- path" for the bottom commit is misleading Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 21:13 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-08 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-09 1:55 ` Jeff King
2014-05-08 21:26 ` Jeff King
2014-05-08 21:32 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-09 0:11 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 5:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-09 15:29 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-09 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-10 13:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-05-08 21:38 ` John Keeping
2014-05-08 21:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 22:10 ` John Keeping
2014-05-08 22:16 ` John Keeping
2014-05-08 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
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