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Re: Blamming a diff between two commits?

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Feb 20, 2009, 20:04 UTC
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<200902202104.37695.trast@student.ethz.ch>
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Thomas Rast wrote:
> Samuel Lucas Vaz de Mello wrote:
> > Is there any way to git blame (or annotate) a diff between two
> > commits?
[...]
> Call it as './git-blame-diff.perl HEAD^ HEAD' or so.

Any reports from the field? Does it do what you wanted? Does it have other shortcomings than the ones I mentioned:

> This lacks proper argument checking and a chdir to the repository top
> level.  Maybe you could fill in the gaps and shape it as a contrib
> patch?  For bonus points, change it so that the workdir version can be
> used as the new side of the diff, by omitting the second argument.
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 7 of 10 in “Blamming a diff between two commits?”
  1. Samuel Lucas Vaz de MelloFeb 17, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2009
  3. Samuel Lucas Vaz de MelloFeb 17, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2009
  5. Matthieu MoyFeb 17, 2009
  6. Thomas RastFeb 17, 2009
  7. Thomas RastFeb 20, 2009
  8. Jan HudecFeb 22, 2009
  9. Matthieu MoyFeb 22, 2009
  10. Jan HudecFeb 22, 2009

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