From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 01:55:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Output from "git blame A..B -- path" for the bottom commit is misleading
Message-ID: <20140509015547.GB9787@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzjis0w9t.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:56:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> In short:
> 
>  - I am not considering nor proposing to change the default at all.
> 
>  - I have two choices, either change the behaviour of "-b", or
>    introducing a new option (the latter includes "-b -b"); I am
>    slightly in favor of the latter, but not by a large margin.
> 
>  - I have two choices, regardless of how the new mode is triggered,
>    for outputs.  Either fill it with "Unknown" name and leave
>    everything else as is, or blank all information from the boundary
>    commit out.  I am moderately in favor of the latter.
> 
> Hope that clarifies.

Thanks, that makes it much more clear to me at least what you were
asking in the original.

Not that my opinion necessarily matters, but what I was trying to
express elsewhere in the thread was a preference for: output is blank,
and tie it to "-b" (mostly because I do not see any way in which the
author name sans commit is at all useful).

I _would_ consider changing the default to "-b", but that is really a
separate topic from this (and quite possibly falls under the "if I were
designing from scratch today, but I am not..." category of changes).

-Peff