From: Bo Yang Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:39:33 GMT Subject: Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser 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 wrote: > > 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 > 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