If you run
$ git blame -L103,107 v2.0.0-rc0..v2.0.0-rc2 t/t9117-git-svn-init-clone.sh
you will see something like this:
^cc29195 (Junio C Hamano 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 103)
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 104) test_expect_...
^cc29195 (Junio C Hamano 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 105) test...
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 106) git ...
^cc29195 (Junio C Hamano 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 107) test...
It is correct to attribute these lines that have not changed since
the bottom of the range (i.e. v2.0.0-rc0) to that commit, and it may
be technically correct to show my name because I recorded the tree
that contains these lines as v2.0.0-rc0 with that commit.
But I find it really misleading, as this is the true picture if we
dug to the bottom of the history:
$ git blame -L103,107 v2.0.0-rc2 t/t9117-git-svn-init-clone.sh
f849bb6b (Johan Herland 2013-10-11 14:57:06 +0200 103)
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 104) test_expect_...
f849bb6b (Johan Herland 2013-10-11 14:57:06 +0200 105) test ! -d p...
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 106) git svn ini...
f849bb6b (Johan Herland 2013-10-11 14:57:06 +0200 107) test_must_f...
I do not expect Johan's name to appear in the output for the first
one, because that would require us to dig deeper than the commit we
were told to stop at, but I am wondering if we can do better than
the existing "-b" option to reduce the confusion from the output.
The "-b" option blanks the commit object name, but still shows the
name and timestamp for the bottom commit:
(Junio C Hamano 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 103)
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 104) test_expect_...
(Junio C Hamano 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 105) test...
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 106) git ...
(Junio C Hamano 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 107) test...
I am tempted to say "blame that is run without the --porcelain
option is a end-user facing Porcelain, and people should not be
reading its output in their scripts" and change the behaviour of the
"-b" option to instead show something like this instead:
^cc29195 (Unknown 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 103)
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 104) test_expect_...
^cc29195 (Unknown 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 105) test...
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 106) git ...
^cc29195 (Unknown 2014-04-18 11:21:43 -0700 107) test...
which shows the commit object name, its bottom-ness and the
timestamp, or even
( 103)
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 104) test_expect_...
( 105) test...
7bbc458b (Kyle J. McKay 2014-04-22 04:16:22 -0700 106) git ...
( 107) test...
which does away with the misleading information altogether.
I myself is leaning towards the latter between the two, and not
overriding "-b" but introducing another "cleanse the output of
useless bottom information even more" option.
Opinions?
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