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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, 19:47 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.0.98.0706211243400.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> 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.

Side note - this ended up being one reason why "gitk" is so good. It just passed down the arguments to "git-rev-list", and it allowed me to improve on the original gitk without gitk ever even _realizing_ it was improved upon. All the pathname filtering etc was done without gitk ever learning about it - it "just worked".

		Linus
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