RE: git feature request: git blame --ignore-cleanup/--ignore-trivial

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2021, 21:16 UTC
Message-ID: <60b7f54697fda_16925f2083d@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <30399052.5964.1622647235870.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> Perhaps a new git blame "--ignore-trivial" and/or "--ignore-cleanup" could solve
> this by filtering out "trivial" and "cleanup" patches from the history it considers.

While this feature would be a good addition, more often than not I need to look behind the latest commit regardless of whether or not it's a trivial one.

So what I often end up doing is a `git blame --incremental`:

  git blame --incremental -L100,+6 file.c | grep -o -e '^[0-9a-f]\{40\}'

This can be fed to `git log --stdin --oneline --no-walk` for more user-friendliness.

Of course you could just do:

  git log -L100,+6:file.c --oneline --no-patch

But for some reason that's much slower on my system.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras