Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser

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Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> When you want to know where the first few lines of Makefile
>> came from, and if blame says the first line came from 2731d048, that
>> really means that between the revision you started digging from and the
>> found revision, there is no commit that touched that particular line, but
>> equally importantly, that before that found revision, there wasn't a
>> corresponding line in that file---blame stopped exactly because there is
>> nobody before that found revision that the line can be blamed on.
> ...
> Yes, this is not satisfying. But as I understand, the line level
> history browser will do more than just this. It will not stop on 'step
> 4', it can follow the change history recursively and deeply, to find
> more.

I am actually questioning the existence of "recursively and deeply to find
more"; the reason blame stopped at a particular commit is exactly because
there is no more---otherwise it wouldn't have stopped there but kept
digging deeper.

That is what I meant in the message you are responding to, quoted at the
top of this message.
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