From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Progress report on git-blame
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:30:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh3vb6hf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsisbn391.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:48:06 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> So I'm usually just interested in a screenful of lines. If we could
>> have a version of `C-x v g' that only does "blame" for the current
>> region, for instance, that would certainly fit my use case.
>
> One more thing: "git blame" is of no use when you're trying to see not
> "who wrote these lines when" but "who removed (and when) the lines that
> aren't there any more".
That's what the --reverse option of git blame is for.
> A "git log-and-diff" would handle that case just fine, OTOH.
git log -S "literal string" filename
is also quite helpful (it just outputs the commits where the "literal
string" appears or disappears).
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-26 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 14:02 RFC - cleaning up /etc Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-09 14:48 ` Samuel El-Borai
2014-01-09 15:09 ` Samuel El-Borai
2014-01-09 16:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-09 17:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-09 19:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 14:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 15:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-11 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-11 20:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 21:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-12 0:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 1:06 ` Progress report on git-blame (was: RFC - cleaning up /etc) David Kastrup
2014-01-25 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 8:59 ` Progress report on git-blame David Kastrup
2014-01-25 9:21 ` martin rudalics
2014-01-25 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 10:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-20 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-25 18:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 18:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 19:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 20:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 14:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-27 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 23:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-26 1:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 6:30 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-01-26 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 8:28 ` David Engster
2014-01-25 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:03 ` RFC - cleaning up /etc Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 13:46 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
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