From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Seeing which commits modified a range of lines? Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:26:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87d28yp083.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: <87lhnq3uww.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <87lhnox0mj.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <8761erqwe2.fsf@zigzag.favinet> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415434960 10992 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2014 08:22:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 08:22:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 09:22:33 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Xn1I0-0008FC-Q0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:22:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn1I0-0000qb-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 03:22:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn1Hi-0000pe-RL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 03:22:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn1Hb-0008EI-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 03:22:14 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp205.alice.it ([82.57.200.101]:34527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn1Hb-0008Dr-0p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 03:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (79.41.72.200) by smtp205.alice.it (8.6.060.28) id 545C7EA1003E5FAE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 8 Nov 2014 09:22:05 +0100 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn1La-0006Xx-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:26:14 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Fri, 7 Nov 2014 21:42:02 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.101 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100847 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () Tom () Fri, 7 Nov 2014 21:42:02 +0000 (UTC) If you have a longer function which is modified a lot of times and you are interested in a chunk of code in it and want to see only its modifications then a feature which can pinpoint the modifications in the chunk can be much more useful than grepping the changelog. No doubt. I address only the quality of the usefulness, not its quantity, which (due to its Quality component) is necessarily pov-specific. My message was a semi-bitter grousing response to the "I am surprised" bit, that's all. [Insert nothing-gold-can-stay long-hair laments, here. :-D] =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list))) =3D> nil --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlRd058ACgkQZwMiJEyAdQJt0gCffP8yAPEvGEXcQRLH2xvSd9vS o+gAn23v5kDJouLoSZPN1MryIG3Q9aod =YVP5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--