Re: FFmpeg considering GIT

Andy Parkins wrote:

On Friday 2007 May 04, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

quoted

for these we currently copy the last good version of the affected files
over the current one with svn cp and then apply the changes in nicely
split manner. (possibly without the reindention if its uneeded ...)

I might be misunderstanding, but doesn't that leave the "bad" commit in the
history?

In the history? Yes.
In the blame? No.

 * -- * -- G -- B -- !B -- 1 -- 2 -- 3

B is the bad commit; !B would be the result of the svn cp from the previous
known-good revision, "G"; then 1, 2, and 3 would be the correctly split
version of "B".

With svn cp you actually create this "blame" history:

* -- * -- G -- B
           \
             ----- G* -- 1 -- 2 -- 3

where G* is a new revision, but since it is otherwise identical to G, it
does not introduce new blame-able lines.

-- Hannes