From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:08:00 GMT
Subject: Re: using git-blame with patches as input
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In-Reply-To: <7vabhl9hap.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
> ...
>> ...  Unfortunately, I don't quite understand
>> some of the algorithms git-blame does when it splits the patch chunks into
>> smaller pieces to determine which pieces are blame-able on the parents.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/28826

In the article quoted, "blame" refers to a very old "git-blame" code that
does not in our codebase anymore.  It talks about "git-pickaxe" which
later took over the "git-blame" name, which happend in acca687
(git-pickaxe: retire pickaxe, 2006-11-08).

It talks about "NEEDSWORK" to hint that the implementation was incomplete,
refering to the version that eventually lead to cee7f24 (git-pickaxe:
blame rewritten., 2006-10-19).