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Re: Introduction and Wikipedia and Git Blame

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 16, 2009, 23:25 UTC
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"jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com" <jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com> writes:
> What do you think of my idea to create blames along a specific user
> defined byte positions ?

Overly complicated and not enough time for _review_. If you are blaming one-byte (or one-char) per line, wouldn't it be enough to consider the line number in the output as byte (or char) position when reconstituting the original text?

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