From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:51:08 GMT
Subject: Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?
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In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimg-a-k8wR-gotEYUQ+C3LcwsBGuw@mail.gmail.com>

David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:

> I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone
> tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how?

I do this sort of digging fairly often.

I am not going to do this particular one myself, but the general procedure
is to first run "git log --diff-filter=A strbuf.[ch] parse-options.[ch]"
to find which commits introduced them (hence, learn who did it, when and
why), then go back to the list archive to find the discussions that lead
to these changes.