Re: [PATCH] git-blame shouldn't crash if run in an unmerged tree

> On 2007.10.18 02:34:07 -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > I'm applying this patch to my maint tree tonight as it does resolve
> > the issue for now.  What surprised me was the file that we were
> > crashing out on wasn't even the file we wanted to get the blame
> > data for.  :-\
> 
> The first merge moved some code from file1 (which doesn't exist in the
> branch anymore) into file2, so I guess the code move detection comes
> into play here.
> 
> Actually, in the original case that crashed here, I was curious about
> some lines in file2 which looked like they had been automatically merged
> from file1, so I tried to use git blame with file2 to see if that really
> happened (I didn't expect git to be even able to follow code moves while
> merging). Unfortunately, I didn't get such a test case yet, which might
> indicate that I've only imagined that merge, and thinking about it, I
> think that file2 wasn't marked as modified in "git status". Hm, I'll try
> to find that merge conflict again and try that again.