# [RFC/PATCH] blame: simplify algorithm 1 messages from 2012-09-05 to 2012-09-05. Participants: Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31445 ## Michael J Gruber, 2012-09-05 11:56 Subject: [RFC/PATCH] blame: simplify algorithm Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/df3f74c3b86ba27881a29f52543669ea4bee667e.1346845901.git.git%40drmicha.warpmail.net ``` Recent research (http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html) resulted in a simplified algorithm for assigning blame in foss projects. Make "git blame" use that algorithm by default. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber --- I've updated the man page for 'git annotate' but not the one for 'git blame' nor the tests, so this is RFC for now. Documentation/git-annotate.txt | 2 +- builtin/blame.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index 05fd482..cbeb996 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision. The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that -they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only +they use different output formats, and this command exists only for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c index 0e102bf..28d5829 100644 --- a/builtin/blame.c +++ b/builtin/blame.c @@ -2341,6 +2341,10 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) struct parse_opt_ctx_t ctx; int cmd_is_annotate = !strcmp(argv[0], "annotate"); + if (!cmd_is_annotate) { + puts("Linus"); + return 0; + } git_config(git_blame_config, NULL); init_revisions(&revs, NULL); revs.date_mode = blame_date_mode; -- 1.7.12.406.gafd3f81 ```