Re: More precise tag following

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 27, 2007, 19:19 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701272017110.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45BBA405.6050409@fs.ei.tum.de>

Hi,

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > Okay, let's try to assume for now that nobody said "git blame".  
> > > Instead let's say:
> > > 
> > > git rev-list and git log (with or without -p) perform poorly when 
> > > invoked with a pathspec.
> > 
> > So what? You _will_ be interested in the _newest_ changes _99%_ of the 
> > time. And for these you don't need to wait 1:18, but 0:00.01 or so.
> 
> not if you are interested which commit introduced/changed a particular 
> line.

Wonderful. Say, you want to know who last changed the beginning of the function main() in git.c:

	$  git blame -L '/main(/,+20' git.c

What was your point again?

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> > > This particular file has 64 revisions.  However there are ~ 375000 
> > > revisions in the converted repo.
> > 
> > "file version" trap! "file version" trap! "file version" trap!
> 
> call it path and retry.

Does not matter. Not one wit. Your reasoning is still harping on "file versions".

Ciao, Dscho