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Re: Approxidate licensing

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 11, 2006, 07:55 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
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> [1] git log and git blame are pretty impressive, but they don't quite 
> catch that most of date.c was written by David as part of commit-tree.c, 
> then Tony replaced it with a version that uses curl, then Edgar separated 
> it out into a date.c and simultaneously reverted Tony's changes. On the 
> other hand, the commit messages do say this, and you can use git log and 
> git blame to verify that they're true. The only thing they don't let 
> you verify is what the differences are between the date.c added in 
> ecee9d9e and the similar part of commit-tree.c in 812666c8. If someone 
> wants to make git blame *really* magic, date.c would be a good test case.

That's good to know. I have in my head a super-duper blame that I outlined in my obituary for git-annotate, but that is still a vaporware and will continue to be for some time.

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  1. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2006
  5. David WoodhouseOct 11, 2006
  6. Edesio Costa e SilvaOct 10, 2006

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