Re: [PATCH 0/8] Introduce git-blame-tree(1) command

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Mar 26, 2025, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Z+Rl43VR3ErE0Bu4@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <20250326-toon-blame-tree-v1-0-4173133f3786@iotcl.com>

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:18:24PM +0100, Toon Claes wrote:

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> This is yet another attempt to upstream the builtin command
> `git-blame-tree(1)`. This command is similar to git-blame(1) and shows
> the most recent modification to paths in a tree..
>
> The last attempt (I'm aware of) was made by Ævar in 2023[1]. That
> series was based of patches by Peff written in 2011[2].

For what it's worth, the blame-tree implementation that this came from has evolved significantly since it was originally written in 2011. Most recently Stolee and I worked on a version that uses changed-path Bloom filters to narrow the search, passing un-blamed paths to their parents at each level of the traversal.

I wonder if it would be easier to start from scratch with the modern implementation rather than land this one and try to build on top of it.

Thanks, Taylor