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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Ian Hilt <Ian.Hilt@gmx.com>
Cc: Mircea Bardac <dev@bardac.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git blame for a commit
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:29:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806231829.22004.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806231149470.27742@sys-0.hiltweb.site>

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Ian Hilt wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 at 3:01am -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > I think you could script it using "git diff", and "git blame -L m,n",
> > where line ranges would be calculated from git diff header for
> > post-image, or both pre-image and post-image (in the case of deletions).
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought git-blame only worked with
> the files in the Git working directory.  Therefore, if a file had been
> deleted it would not be reachable with git-blame, whether you diff'ed
> the pre- and post-image or not.

You can give blame the revision to start blaming from; that's what
I meant the "pre-image" blame (staring from parent revision).

I'm not that sure if it is the best solution...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-23 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-22 22:32 git blame for a commit Mircea Bardac
2008-06-23  3:40 ` Ian Hilt
2008-06-23  9:04   ` Mircea Bardac
2008-06-23 10:01     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-23 15:55       ` Ian Hilt
2008-06-23 16:29         ` Jakub Narebski [this message]

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