Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser

> Bo Yang wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> For multiple ranges stuff, I don't think it is very useful to support
>> it for a history browser. Anyway, our users can only focus on one line
>> of thread history. I am very willing to listen what is your use case
>> for a multiple ranges?
>
> More than one line range can be related and of interest to a
> forensics/archeology task.
>
> In a simple multi range case, you'd have 2 line ranges in the same file that
> you want to see the history and graph of. Such as 2 related macro
> definitions in a header file.
>
> In a complex multi range case, you'd have many line ranges spread over
> multiple blobs and some of the blobs have disjoint commit graphs.
>
> The complex multi range case may be too much for a GSOC project, and the
> simple multi range case may be also. However, the command syntax should be
> general enough to handle them without being too ugly so that the
> implementation could be improved and expanded later.