RE: [PATCH] blame: add the ability to ignore commits

> Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> writes:
> 
> > On 2019-01-10 at 14:29 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> > For instance, commit X does this:
> >> >
> >> > -foo(x,y);
> >> > +foo(x,y,z);
> >> >
> >> > Then commit Y comes along to reformat it:
> >> >
> >> > -foo(x,y,z);
> >> > +foo(x, y, z);
> >> >
> >> > And the history / rev-list for the file looks like:
> >> >
> >> > ---O---A---X---B---C---D---Y---E---F
> >> >
> >> > I want to ignore/skip Y and see X in the blame output.
> >>
> >> If you skip Y, the altered history would have "foo(x, y, z)" in E,
> >> "foo(x,y,z)" in X, and "foo(x,y)" in A.  If you start blaming from F,
> >> you'd get E as the commit that explains the latest state.  If you do
> >> not skip Y, you'd get Y.  I am not sure how you'd get X in either
> >> case.
> >
> > The way to do it is ...
> 
> Sorry, I made a too-fuzzy statement.  What I meant was, that unless you