From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:19:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Retrieving a file in git that was deleted and committed
Message-ID: <xmqq8t0woo6y.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181208072915.GA20697@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> You can feed a set of revisions to git-blame with the "-S" option, but I
> don't offhand know how it handles diffs (I think it would have to still
> diff each commit against its parent, since history is non-linear, and a
> list is inherently linear).

It would diff each commit against its parent specified by the file
given to the -S option.  The contents of the file is fed directly to
the graft mechanism to make the fake history in effect while the
"blame" runs, and you are not limited to a linear history.