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Re: [RFC] git blame-tree

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RTRyan Tomayko <ryan@github.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2011, 05:41 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> It has been my opinion that the default github view that seems to be
> modeled after cvsview is the least useful choice of the default in the
> more modern git era ;-), but I guess people's eyes and brains are trained
> by the old school "file boundaries matter" way of thinking.

Junio, would you mind elaborating a bit here? I read this as "the file tree is less interesting than the commit history", or maybe some other view? I'm curious what would be your preference for default view.

Ryan
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