From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:48:36 GMT
Subject: Re: git-blame and finding previous version of a line
Message-ID: <7vy6vy2za3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902211539.43312.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> What algorithm do you propose to find previous version of a line? It is
> not a question with definitive answer, I think, so some heuristic would
> be required. Previous version of a line might not even exists! (in that
> case we would probably want to be in the place it is inserted). 
> Fortunately this is a situation where approximation is good enough.

I think Peff and Jonas had discussion on this in the previous thread on
tig.