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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, 19:00 UTC
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"jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com" <jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com> writes:
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>> You would need to postprocess the computed result (either by diff or
>> blame) to lay out the final text output in either case anyway, and making
>> the existing blame engine do the work for you would be a better approach,
>> I think.
>
> Please can you tell me what is the basic algorithm of the blame engine?
I think this is one of the most conprehensive write-up on the algorithm:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/28826/focus=28895

The whole thread (at least what I wrote in it) is worth reading if you want to understand what the current code does. The first message in the thread talks about "NEEDSWORK" label on an unimplemented part of the code, and says "we could", but these gaps were since filled.

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