From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:15:01 GMT
Subject: Re: On blame/pickaxe
Message-ID: <453393E5.3020203@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <200610161602.49811.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> 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