Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser

From: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2010, 06:10 UTC
Message-ID: <41f08ee11003202310l555cae23r23dbdfa476e8398f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpeibtij.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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> I would actually recommend you take a look at -L option from blame.  What
> I use most often and find very handy myself is this pattern:
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>        blame -L '/^void some_function()/,/^}/' -- path
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> as I do not have to count the line numbers.

I have look at that options and I find it is very convenient and line-level browser will adopt that line syntax, too.

> There also was a discussion on allowing more than one -L to blame, which I
> think is applicable to this feature.  Check the list archive for the past
> few months.

I think it is rationale for 'git blame' to allow more than one -L to let the users see more than one block of code. But for a tool which used to explore history, I think the user almost focus on one thread of history. If the history split on some point, we should ask user for choose one to go on. So, I think the line-level browser need not to support such a thing. :)

Regards! Bo