From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Seeing which commits modified a range of lines? Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 21:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87lhnq3uww.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <87lhnox0mj.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <8761erqwe2.fsf@zigzag.favinet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415396567 7550 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2014 21:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 21:42:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 22:42:42 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 1XmrIm-0002Y8-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:42:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmrIm-0001jH-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmrIV-0001j4-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmrIQ-0005UI-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmrIP-0005UB-TM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:42:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XmrIN-00028L-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:42:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 217-197-181-7.pool.digikabel.hu ([217.197.181.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:42:15 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 217-197-181-7.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:42:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 217.197.181.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:100840 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen gnu.org> writes: > > The classic (old-school, sadly out of fashion these days > of ever-widening programmer/non-programmer divide -- in > communication, in mindset, in action[0]) solution is to > grep ChangeLog files. 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.