Re: [PATCH 1/1] diffcore: add a filter to find a specific blob

On 08/12/17 09:34, Jeff King wrote:

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 04:24:47PM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:

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Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this
patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting
the information to what is shown. For example:

  $ ./git log --oneline --blobfind=v2.0.0:Makefile
  b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now
  47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"

we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was introduced in
v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and replaced in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb64309 by
a different blob.

Sorry, this has nothing to do with this specific thread. :(

However, the above caught my eye. Commit b2feb64309 does not 'replace
the Makefile with a different blob'. That commit was a 'last minute'
revert of a topic _prior_ to v2.0.0, which resulted in the _same_
blob as commit 47fbfded53. (i.e. a53f3a8326c2e62dc79bae7169d64137ac3dab20).

[I haven't been following this topic, so just ignore me if I have
misunderstood what the above was describing! :-D ]

ATB,
Ramsay Jones