From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:25:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Introduction and Wikipedia and Git Blame
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In-Reply-To: <ee9cc730910161419x608f5972x705ce8088d72c94a@mail.gmail.com>

"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?