Re: Output from "git blame A..B -- path" for the bottom commit is misleading

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On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:10:24PM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 02:58:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > On a slight tangent, I tried this in a fairly young repository and got
> > > this (with master at v2.0.0-rc2-4-g1dc51c6):
> > >
> > > $ git blame Makefile | head -5
> > > 7a3fc144 (John Keeping      2013-12-26 17:37:53 +0000   1) REL_VERSION = v0.2
> > > 5c9829f9 (John Keeping      2013-07-29 17:03:26 +0100   2) 
> > > 5c9829f9 (John Keeping      2013-07-29 17:03:26 +0100   3) # The default target is...
> > > ^f7fae99 (John Keeping      2013-03-24 17:14:40 +0000   4) all::
> > > ^f7fae99 (John Keeping      2013-03-24 17:14:40 +0000   5) 
> > >
> > > f7fae99 is the initial commit in the repository, so shouldn't the last
> > > two lines blame to that, not a non-existent ancestor?
> > 
> > It is not saying f7fae99^, is it?  It is debatable if it is correct
> > to mark the root commit as a boundary, but that is what it is
> > showing, I think.  In other words, "this line hasn't changed since
> > the inception of the project".
> 
> Yes, it's marking it as a boundary but I'm not convinced that's correct.

But it is intentional.  I get the output I expect if I use
`git blame --root`.
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