From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: git-blame and finding previous version of a line
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:48:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy6vy2za3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200902211539.43312.jnareb@gmail.com
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> What algorithm do you propose to find previous version of a line? It is
> not a question with definitive answer, I think, so some heuristic would
> be required. Previous version of a line might not even exists! (in that
> case we would probably want to be in the place it is inserted).
> Fortunately this is a situation where approximation is good enough.
I think Peff and Jonas had discussion on this in the previous thread on
tig.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-22 16:50 UTC|newest]
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2009-02-21 14:39 git-blame and finding previous version of a line Jakub Narebski
2009-02-22 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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