Re: How do I...

From: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>
Date: May 6, 2005, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <427BBDD7.90600@tuxrocks.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0505061321590.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

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Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Frank Sorenson wrote:
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>>Note that I could be just thinking about this all wrong, so my
>>terminology could be in left field.  Here, I'm mostly just interested in
>>the case where "Hey, something broke with drivers/char/i8k.c.  When was
>>this changed?  Who changed what?"
> 
> 
> The tricky thing is that you want to *not* see commits where somebody
> adopted somebody else's change to drivers/char/i8k.c; you want to ignore
> those commits in favor of the commits where the original author of the
> changes made the changes. Otherwise, you mostly see merges with people
> submitting lines where they didn't change that file.

True. At least usually. Sometimes, though, we'll want to see the entire history of the file, so we can see when it went (for example) into Greg K-H's tree, then when Linus pulls into his tree, etc. I guess that makes "just when the file itself has actually changed" a special case of the entire history of a particular file.

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
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Brigham Young University
frank@tuxrocks.com
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