Re: Add Commit Summary in blame?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2024, 00:19 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAO0eup=KqHe68OkHqYWtDgsTx0cAwg5Y5HSqK4s_BNbZhr8hVw@mail.gmail.com>

Aleks Todorov <aleks.todorov.1337@gmail.com> writes:

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> Would people be interested in seeing a patch that adds an option to
> see the commit message summary line in the git blame output? I imagine
> I'm not the first person to come up with this, is there a reason why
> it wasn't already implemented? The porcelain already has it, so the
> change is trivial.

I personally do not. The blame output on the left-hand-side is already wide enough to be even annoying.

A patch that might interest me personally would be one that takes the --format option (copy from the log family plus add some that are only useful in "git blame", like "line number") to allow customizing the left-hand-side of the output, and allows us to reimplement ugly hacks^W^W ad-hoc options (like -l, -t, --date, -f, -n, -s, -e) in terms of that. With such a feature, of course your "commit summary" will come almost for free in the form of --format=%s I would think.

A change that adds even more ad-hoc options is probably not welcome, I would have to say.