Re: Following renames

On 3/27/06, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

In contrast, git-whatchanged will start outputting the recent changes
immediately.

To integrate git-whatchanged like functionality with filter on a
specific code region, the Linus original request, I am wondering about
something like this:

A new git-diff-tree option --range=a..b to delimit a region,
identified by code lines bounduaries.

As example

git-diff-tree --range=10..15 HEAD -- <path>

Coud give these answers, added to standard git-diff-tree output:

* 10..25 --> modified region new region bounduaries are lines from 10 to 25

  15..20 --> region _NOT_ modified but new region bounduaries are
lines from 15 to 20 (perhaps patch added 5 lines _before_ the region)

  10..15  ---> region _NOT_ modified and lines, if any, added/removed 
_after_ the region

* 10..15 --> modified region with the same boundiaries (as example
removing trailing witespaces)

With this new option of git-diff-tree becames very simple to retrieve
a file history limited to a region, because the region bounduaries in
ouput from one rev are feed as input in parent rev.

Comments?

Marco