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Re: On blame/pickaxe

From
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date
Oct 16, 2006, 14:15 UTC
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<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
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  8. Andy WhitcroftOct 16, 2006
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