From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Finding the culprit (was: Please stop making extra unnecessary work for us all)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:16:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk0ii9q5n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEcf3NzZUcmEVSsWdX3O9bNkxSg6GdFPS1W9rds_8zxEW8MWDg@mail.gmail.com> (Campbell Barton's message of "Tue, 12 Oct 2021 23:55:31 +1100")
>> And like pure WS changes, they mess up git blame, they make searches in
>> history more difficult. In some instances they introduce solecisms in
>> English usage.
> You can use ".git-blame-ignore-revs" to exclude white-space only changes.
FWIW, I find `vc-region-history` works much better than `git blame`
(aka `vc-annotate`) when I want to know where code comes from.
This is true both with and without "gratuitous" changes.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-12 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-12 12:39 Please stop making extra unnecessary work for us all Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-12 12:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 12:55 ` Campbell Barton
2021-10-12 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-10-12 16:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-12 13:36 ` dick
2021-10-12 15:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-12 23:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-10-12 16:09 ` CC-mode fork (was: Please stop making extra unnecessary work for us all) Stefan Monnier
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