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

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On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:04 PM, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I'd actually be inclined to say the opposite of what Junio is saying
>> there: that "-b" should blank the author field as well as the commit
>> sha1. I'd even go so far as to say that "-b" should probably be the
>> default when boundary commits are in use. I cannot think of a time when
>> I have found the boundary information useful, and the IMHO the output
>> above is less confusing than what we produce now. But I admit I haven't
>> thought very hard on it.
>
> Arguably if the user explicitly limited the range, he knows what he's
> looking at.  Admittedly, I don't know offhand which options _will_
> produce boundary commit indications: there may be some without explicit
> range limitation, and we might also be talking about limiting through
> shallow repos (git blame on a shallow repo is probably a bad idea in the
> first place, but anyway).

No it's not. The idea of shallow repos is to work like a normal repo
(most of the time at least). Excluding git-blame from shallow repos is
a bad idea. Luckily it's not hard to detect shallow boundaries: if a
commit has no parents and lookup_commit_graft() returns -1, then
that's it.
-- 
Duy
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