From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:15:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git blame --reverse: it's all a bit mysterious
Message-ID: <201011112315.04299.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <87hbfnabax.wl%greenrd@greenrd.org>

Robin Green wrote:
> greenrd@cspcnh /var/db/paludis/repositories/arbor $ strace -f -e trace=file git blame --reverse 48d96ce0e486eedea9fda0f8e480ba3c6caffc90..HEAD exlibs/eutils.exlib
[...]
> I notice from the strace output that it's looking for the specified filename first, which of course
> no longer exists in HEAD.

This can be fixed by saying

  git blame --reverse 48d96ce0e486eedea9fda0f8e480ba3c6caffc90..HEAD -- exlibs/eutils.exlib

i.e., you need to supply the -- to explicitly tell it that the stuff
after it is a filename.

It's probably a code (not documentation) bug since blame takes only a
single revision range anyway, so everything after that should be
assumed to be a filename, but maybe I'm missing something.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch