Re: Wrap up of Line Level History Browser [long]
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> For me it replaces a manual iterative process to find out in what ways
> a function was patched until it came to have its current shape:
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> git-blame the area, find the most recent commit C
> while 1:
> git show C
> if that explains the code: break
> git-blame the area in C^
> find the most recent commit and call it C again
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> All of this can now be replaced by a simple
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> git log -L <range> <filename>
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> A good example that I did a lot of testing with:
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> git log --graph be58e70d^ -L /builtin_funcname_pattern/,/^}/ diff.c
Thanks. (And thanks to Bo for implementing it!)
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>