Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 4, 2007, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702041111010.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070204185144.GB24368@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> Just a thought, but it might be useful to blame the contents of an
> arbitrary file (but starting the history at a given pathname). Something
> like "git blame --contents /tmp/foo.c file.c", with contents defaulting
> to "file.c". There's much discussion of editor interfaces, and this
> leaves the possibility of git-blaming the contents of the editor buffer
> (after writing it out to a temp file) without having to save changes to
> the working tree file.

I agree, that probably would make most sense. If we do this at all. On the other hand, I suspect that most editors would probably want to pipe the contents to the program, not write it to a temp-file.

(I think it's a worthy feature, but Junio's patch wasn't exactly pretty, so the question boils down to whether it's really worth it).

		Linus