Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser

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HI,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If you can make a heuristic along these lines this work well, I think it
> would be great.  I imagine it might work very well for commits that made
> nice, small changes (like many of those in git.git).  Jakub pointed out
> some of the difficulties, and I like to hope your idea of “when in doubt,
> include more lines” may work well in many cases in git.git still.
>
> Good luck, and thank you for taking my crazy ideas seriously. :)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] See v1.4.4-rc1~2 (Merge branch 'jc/pickaxe', 2006-11-07) and the
> commits preceding it.  About that series, Junio wrote:
>
>        Actually the plan is to make it do _true_ pickaxe,
>        although it will most likely end up either in dustbin or
>        replace blame.
>
> It replaced blame.
>
> I am not actually sure, but I assume “true pickaxe” refers to the
> goals described in <http://gitster.livejournal.com/35628.html>
> and the linked-to message.

I have looked over the article and the message from Linus, it really
help me very much. The message and article pointed out most of the
things a line level tool should do, and I am happy to find that it is
similar with my proposal. :) Thanks again for your precious advice and
I think I can come up a better proposal, now. Thanks!

Regards!
Bo
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