Re: [PATCH v2] blame: Add option to show author email instead of name

> Kevin Ballard wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
>>> Bonus nit: does this belong in annotate-tests.sh or does it only apply
>>> to "git blame" and not "git annotate"?  If the latter, a note in the
>>> commit message would be helpful.
>> 
>> --show-email originally only applied to git-blame. I tweaked the
>> patch to make it apply to git-annotate simply because check_count
>> can't handle the format of git-blame, but the intention of the
>> change wasn't to make it apply to git-annotate in the first place.
>> You'll note I also didn't document it in the manpage for
>> git-annotate. If you think it's better to move it into
>> annotate-tests.sh, I can do that, but that does mean officially
>> declaring git-annotate as supporting --show-email.
> 
> No preference, since I never use "git annotate" myself.  In fact,
> long term, I'd rather see a "git blame --format=<template>" appearing
> and "git annotate" replaced with a thin script wrapping "git blame".
> 
> Anyway, whatever you decide, it would be nice to document it in the
> commit message, no?  e.g.:
> 
> 	The tests and documentation only affect "git blame",
> 	because...