Re: Possible git blame bug?
- From
- Domagoj Stolfa <domagoj.stolfa@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 13, 2017, 23:19 UTC
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- <20170313231935.GA51164@workstation>
- In-Reply-To
- <xmqqtw6wlqf8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Hello,
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> > Thanks for clearing this up. Is this documented somewhere, so that if it happens > > again I can point people to the docs that explain this behaviour? > > Is this from "git blame --help" sufficient? > > When you are not interested in changes older than version > v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision > range specifiers similar to 'git rev-list': > > git blame v2.6.18.. -- foo > git blame --since=3.weeks -- foo > > When revision range specifiers are used to limit the annotation, > lines that have not changed since the range boundary (either the > commit v2.6.18 or the most recent commit that is more than 3 > weeks old in the above example) are blamed for that range > boundary commit.
re-reading it post your explanation, it seems to make perfect sense. Thanks again for the detailed explanation of the behaviour!
-- Best regards, Domagoj Stolfa