Re: [PATCH] git-gui: use "blame -w -C -C" for "where did it come from, originally?"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jun 21, 2007, 19:39 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706211237220.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070621050117.GF8477@spearce.org>

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> 
> I've wanted to do this since you introduced `git blame -w`.  But I
> can't use it, because I cannot trust that -w is there.  For example
> it is not in maint, but the new blame viewer from git-gui is.

Actually, I think there's a different fundamental problem, namely that git-gui doesn't seem to accept parameters.

I'd personally rather *not* have git-gui make the -w/-M/-C choice for me. Why don't you just allow the user to say? Sometimes I might want to see who introduced broken whitespace. Let me say

	git gui blame -w filename.c

please? Instead of making that choice for me, and then blaming git for something that wasn't git's problem.

		Linus