Re: [PATCH v6] Add new git-related helper to contrib

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 22, 2013, 22:58 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <7v8v36iq3e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> As I already said in the above, the answer is no, when you are
>>> trying to find who moved the code from the original place.
>>
>> But I'm not trying to find who moved the code, I'm trying to find
>> related commits; hence the name 'git related'.
>>
>> The person who moved the code will be on the list regardless,
>
> That is exactly the point I have been trying to raise.  Does the
> person appear in the list when you run blame with -CCC?  You ask for

s/person/commit/;

> the body of the function, and the -C mode of blame sees through the
> block-of-line movement across file boundaries, and goes straight to
> the last commit that touched the body of the function in its original
> file, no?