Re: git-log --follow?

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Yeah, I just tried the blame from 'pu' (I have been carrying
that original patch from you there).  The output is not very
intuitive in that it talks about each commit but it is not
apparent _why_ the command talks about that commit.  Maybe
adding "there are the lines in the final image of the blob you
are blaming that came from this commit" to the output would make
the output easier to read.

That doesn't necessarily work, at least not incrementally. The same commit 
can show up multiple times for *different* 'blame_entry' things, and I 
don't think we want to show such a commit multiple times, and I also don't 
think we know what all the blame entries are going to be until the end.

So right now I use that METAINFO_SHOWN flag to just show the commit once. 
That makes the log a *lot* more readable.

In my original patch (the one you apparently have in 'pu'), I did that 
differently (and not very well), but maybe that approach lends itself 
better to showing some kind of patch.

I think my newer version is likely better.

		Linus