Re: [PATCH] blame: fix coloring for repeated suspects

> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
> 
>> The option --ignore-rev passes the blame to an older commit.  This can
>> cause adjacent scoreboard entries to blame the same commit.  Currently
>> we only look a the present entry when determining whether a line needs
> 
> "look at"?

>> to be colored for --color-lines.  Check the previous entry as well.
> 
> While this should work, I am kind of surprised that this has to done
> as a sepecial case.  It often happens that two adjacent blocks may
> be originally pass their blames to different parents of a merge, but
> then the blame passes down through both branches down to the same
> ancestor, at which point these two blocks need to be merged back
> into the same source again, and I was hoping that a helper function
> for it would be called to take care of this case as well.