Re: Git blame only current branch

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:24:47AM -0500, Stephen Bash wrote:

I'm curious if there's a method to make git blame merge commits that
introduce code to the given branch rather than commits on the original
(topic) branch?  For example:

Usually when you are interested in seeing merges like this in git-log,
you would use one of "--first-parent" or "--merges". However, though
"git blame" takes revision arguments, it does its own traversal of the
graph that does not respect those options.

Modifying it to do --first-parent is pretty easy:

diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index 80febbe..c19a8cd 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c

@@ -1191,6 +1191,8 @@ static int num_scapegoats(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
 {
 	int cnt;
 	struct commit_list *l = first_scapegoat(revs, commit);
+	if (revs->first_parent_only)
+		return l ? 1 : 0;
 	for (cnt = 0; l; l = l->next)
 		cnt++;
 	return cnt;

With that, "git blame --first-parent" produces reasonable results for
me. But of course I didn't do more than 30 seconds of testing, so it is
entirely possible there are corner cases or unforeseen side effects.

Handling --merges is probably a little trickier, as you need to consider
only some commits as scapegoats, but still traverse through everything
to find the merges.

-Peff