Re: [PATCH] (experimental) per-topic shortlog.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 1, 2006, 11:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhcwfanja.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vlklranrt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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> What's wrong is that the ancestry graph around that commit
> roughly looks like this:
>
>          z---o---o---o
>         /             \
>   808239a--v1.4.3--o---*---o---v1.4.4
> ...
> While what blame outputs is technically correct, it is not very
> useful for this kind of application.  As you said, it probably
> makes sense to gray-out the lines that are blamed on boundary
> commits.
>
> Side note: one might be tempted to say "then blame v1.4.3 for
> lines that 808239a is blamed for", but that is a good

Gaah. "that is NOT a good workaround". Sorry about the wasted bandwidth.

> workaround.  The original command line could have more than one
> bottom commits, and the final blame might go to a common
> ancestor of them, and we need to randomly choose between them,
> which is worse than telling the truth as we currently do.