Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.14

[Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:06, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:47, Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> wrote:
>> > One problem it does not yet handle is the
>> > cut'n'paste within the same file where the deleted line ends up in a
>> > different hunk.
>>
>> Hmm, this is trivially fixed by passing -M to git blame so maybe that
>> should just be the default for tig.
>
> Yes, I think that is worth doing. It might also be nice to show the
> original filename in the blame output (perhaps optionally if it is
> different than the original). However, you might want to look at how
> "git gui blame" does it. It actually shows _two_ entries for each line:
> the origin of the content, and the commit that moved the content into
> place.
>
> I don't know if that is worth doing in tig or not; I think you generally
> want to assume a much more constrained screen size (though I have to
> admit that I generally maximize my terminal to use "tig blame" anyway --
> 80x25 just doesn't cut it).

I wouldn't mind not showing the date and sha1 columns. The sha1 column
is mustly there to give a clue about what lines are from the same
commit, but that could be done better using the ideas from git-gui.

Will look into it when I get some more time ...

-- 
Jonas Fonseca