Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> +/* >> + * NEEDSWORK: manually building a diff here is not the Right >> + * Thing(tm). log -L should be built into the diff pipeline. > > I am not sure about this design, and do not necessarily agree that > wedging this to the diff pipeline is the right future direction. > > I have a feeling that "log -L" should actually be built around > "blame". You let blame to hit the first parent to take the blame, > and then turn around to show a single "diff-tree" between the child > and the parent with whatever other diff pipeline gizmo the user can > give you from the command line. The blame also tells you what the > "interesting" line range were at the first parent commit you found, > so you can re-run the same thing with an updated range. Hrm, now that you mention it, this is actually a brilliant idea. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html