Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> "Horrifying" seems a fairly harsh word for another way to describe the
> process *in linear history* and with default settings, doesn't it?
No, even in a linear setting, if you start from "We discard "-" and take
blame for +", you can never get to -M/-C.
Suppose you had "a/b/c/" in the parent and "1/b/c/2/a/3/4/a/5/" in the
child ("/" stands for LF). Your "b/c/" would match and you say "I added
1/, 2/a/3/4/a/5/". How would you fix that so that you can say that "a/"
after "2/" was actually moved from the first line, and possibly the second
"a/" was also copied from the same line, if you discard all "-"?
You can say "in linear history and no -M nor -C, you could annotate things
this way", but then you are not describing "blame" anymore; you are
describing something else that may work very well in much simpler setting
and it might even be how some other SCMs would do it.
But it _is_ horrifying to see that in a section that begins with "blame
works as follows".
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