From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Progress report on git-blame Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:37:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqhmabl9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140109140226.57D6C38085A@snark.thyrsus.com> <20140110155121.GA8178@thyrsus.com> <20140111205925.GC17111@thyrsus.com> <87y52mdoha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fvoceuos.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <83d2jgcy5z.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbx8cu8a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87eh3v7wiq.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87r47v1x64.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390757858 2866 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2014 17:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 26 18:37:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7TeT-0001pg-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:37:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7TeS-0004oX-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7TeM-0004oO-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:37:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7TeH-0002kL-6k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:37:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:52364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7TeG-0002jp-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N0000O00RA81O00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:37:12 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N0000I0CRLZLX70@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:37:12 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169132 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:48:15 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > When you know the content's of the line that was added/removed (or a > > peculiar enough part of it) you can use `git log -S ': > > Of course, usually I don't know, because the whole point of using "git > blame" is indeed to find the history of that chunk of text. Perhaps we should define what it means "find the history of that chunk of text". I'm not sure we all talk about the same use case.