From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 22:58:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Add new git-related helper to contrib Message-ID: <7v4nduipvb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7v8v36iq3e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Felipe Contreras writes: > >> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Junio C Hamano 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?