From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 06:56:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there any efficient way to track history of a piece of code?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1405082354100.17457@nftneq.ynat.uz>
In-Reply-To: <CAHz2CGV6==abb0SrXOyqwumxEVLFnTtqe1Z4j2A7XcvJNuoAHw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 8 May 2014, Jianyu Zhan wrote:

> That being said, storing abstract syntax tree, instead of raw object in git.
> But that goes too far...

well, there are the clean/smudge filters, you can have it run everything through 
a prettyprinter as it's checked in.

with a little effort, you could do something along the lines of git filterbranch 
that could create a clone of a repo with all commits cleaned up.

David Lang