Re: [PATCH] Add git-annotate - a tool for annotating files with the revision and person that created each line in the file.

> Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I think this version is mostly ready to go.
> >
> > Junio, the post you pointed me at was very helpful (once I got around to
> > listening to it), but the code it links to is missing - if that's a
> > better partial implementation than this, can you ressurrect it
> > somewhere?  I'd be happy to reintegrate it together.
> 
> I still have it, but the reason why I withdrew circulating it
> was because I found that on some inputs it did not work
> correctly as intended.  Not that the algorithm was necessarily
> broken but the implementation certainly was.
> 
> Unlike yours mine reads and interprets diff output to find which
> lines are common and which lines are added, and I think the diff
> interpretation logic has various corner cases wrong.  I did
> combine-diff.c diff interpreter without looking at my
> 'git-blame', so I do not remember where I got it wrong,
> though...