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From: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/13] parse the -L options
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:46:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinXDRV_Ikd-hoGoWPZmn1Tp0NYHoumaqthydsuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007200951.56218.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>> > I think that would just needlessly break the analogy to git-blame.[0]
>> > With the current code,
>> >
>> >   git blame -L 2,3 <path>
>> >   git log -L 2,3 <path>
>> >
>> > work the same.
>>
>> I like the general direction, but I am not sure how far we want to take
>> that analogue with blame, though.
>>
>> For example, Bo's "log -L" thing also works on more than one path, no?  I
>> suspect it might be be reasonable to teach "blame" to annotate more than
>> one path (with ranges) the same way.  There is no technical limitation in
>> the underlying scoreboard mechanism to prevent it from happening.
>>
>> Very similar to "blame" but quite differently from any normal "log"
>> operation, "log -L" allows only one positive commit (starting point).
>
> AFAICT this is not a conceptual requirement, only one of the current
> implementation/option parsing.  [Bo, how hard would it be to remove
> this requirement?]
>
> 'git log --follow', if it were ever unbroken, would have much the same
> problem that while technically allowing more than one starting point,
> using that is only possible if the starting filename happens to agree
> on all of them.

I think Junio here did not ask for 'git log -L' to support multiple
starting commits. [1]
Considering the arguments you give below, I am in support of put it in
'git log -L' as what we do, now.

-- 
Regards!
Bo
----------------------------
My blog: http://blog.morebits.org
Why Git: http://www.whygitisbetterthanx.com/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-11  6:18 [PATCH v3 01/13] parse-options: stop when encounter a non-option Bo Yang
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] parse-options: add two helper functions Bo Yang
2010-07-12 16:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] add the basic data structure for line level history Bo Yang
2010-07-12 14:16   ` Bo Yang
2010-07-12 16:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-18 14:35       ` Bo Yang
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] refactor parse_loc Bo Yang
2010-07-12 18:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] parse the -L options Bo Yang
2010-07-13 23:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-18 14:49     ` Bo Yang
2010-07-19 18:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-19 22:48         ` Thomas Rast
2010-07-19 23:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-20  7:51             ` Thomas Rast
2010-07-20 15:45               ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-22  9:06                 ` Thomas Rast
2010-07-23  2:08                   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-20 15:46               ` Bo Yang [this message]
2010-07-20 15:47                 ` Bo Yang
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] export three functions from diff.c Bo Yang
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] add range clone functions Bo Yang
2010-07-12 21:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] map/take range to parent Bo Yang
2010-07-12 21:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] print the line log Bo Yang
2010-07-12 21:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] map/print ranges along traversing the history topologically Bo Yang
2010-07-12 21:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-11  6:18 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] add --always-print option Bo Yang
2010-07-13 20:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-11  6:19 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] add two test cases Bo Yang
2010-07-11  6:19 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] some document update Bo Yang
2010-07-11  8:27   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-12 14:12     ` Bo Yang
2010-07-12 18:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-18 14:37         ` Bo Yang
2010-07-12 16:45 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] parse-options: stop when encounter a non-option Junio C Hamano

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