Re: Approxidate licensing

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> [1] git log and git blame are pretty impressive, but they don't quite 
> catch that most of date.c was written by David as part of commit-tree.c, 
> then Tony replaced it with a version that uses curl, then Edgar separated 
> it out into a date.c and simultaneously reverted Tony's changes. On the 
> other hand, the commit messages do say this, and you can use git log and 
> git blame to verify that they're true. The only thing they don't let 
> you verify is what the differences are between the date.c added in 
> ecee9d9e and the similar part of commit-tree.c in 812666c8. If someone 
> wants to make git blame *really* magic, date.c would be a good test case.

That's good to know.  I have in my head a super-duper blame that
I outlined in my obituary for git-annotate, but that is still a
vaporware and will continue to be for some time.