Re: [PATCH v3] t4215: use helper function to check output

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 13, 2019, 02:05 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqeeyccyyy.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <86af5739a4e5f5f38b2597a86d03d5501ad5468b.1573584933.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:

> .... Is there any way to
> force git to make the diff show up the other way in both this diff and
> in the blame or is this the best that we can do?

"git blame -M" is your friend, I think.

	$ git blame -b -M HEAD^ t/t4215-log-skewed-merges.sh

would show what this patch did rather nicely.

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