Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Adding a `blame' interface.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 12, 2006, 22:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0606130053400.25682@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606121546320.5498@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:
> > 
> > > git-blame is a bit faster than git-annotate and, as far as I know, it 
> > > produces output which is correct.
> > 
> > Yeah: Bring It On(tm)! I already waited for ages for this war to begin!
> 
> Sadly, I don't think either of you can really do much about the fact that 
> annotate/blame is simply the wrong model for git.
> 
> The war _I_d like to see is the GUI thing which does the "show when this 
> section changed last" by following the history down only so far that the 
> selected section shows up in the diff against the most current thing.

But this is just the next step! Nothing prevents you -- once everybody agrees that blame/annotate does the right thing -- to restrict the lines of interest. And AFAICT both blame and annotate are good at stopping when all lines are accounted for.

Ciao, Dscho