Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser

From: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 24, 2010, 02:39 UTC
Message-ID: <41f08ee11003231939y390ea4cajdb73d09cf2dd6329@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100323185745.GA1382@progeny.tock>

HI,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> If you can make a heuristic along these lines this work well, I think it
> would be great.  I imagine it might work very well for commits that made
> nice, small changes (like many of those in git.git).  Jakub pointed out
> some of the difficulties, and I like to hope your idea of “when in doubt,
> include more lines” may work well in many cases in git.git still.
>
> Good luck, and thank you for taking my crazy ideas seriously. :)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] See v1.4.4-rc1~2 (Merge branch 'jc/pickaxe', 2006-11-07) and the
> commits preceding it.  About that series, Junio wrote:
>
>        Actually the plan is to make it do _true_ pickaxe,
>        although it will most likely end up either in dustbin or
>        replace blame.
>
> It replaced blame.
>
> I am not actually sure, but I assume “true pickaxe” refers to the
> goals described in <http://gitster.livejournal.com/35628.html>
> and the linked-to message.

I have looked over the article and the message from Linus, it really help me very much. The message and article pointed out most of the things a line level tool should do, and I am happy to find that it is similar with my proposal. :) Thanks again for your precious advice and I think I can come up a better proposal, now. Thanks!

Regards! Bo