Re: On blame/pickaxe
- From
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
- Date
- Oct 16, 2006, 14:15 UTC
- Message-ID
- <453393E5.3020203@shadowen.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <200610161602.49811.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
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> Hi, > > this blame-passing thing really looks very promising and powerful. > > On Monday 16 October 2006 08:43, you wrote: >> If the user is not prepared to see code movement, pickaxe can be >> run without -M nor -C to get the classic blame output. > > Another blame-passing heuristic would be very interesting for code: > "Ignore white-space changes". > This way, commits which only do some reindentations simply are skipped. > > It looks like such a thing would just be a matter of passing "-b" to > executions of "diff" in the blame-passing algorithm.
I am thinking that that is probabally going to need to be optional, for example python the indentation is everything to the meaning of the code.
-apw