Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The reason that I would prefer to change `blame` as part of this patch
> series is that I think it would be disconcerting for `git diff` and `git
> blame` to use different heuristics when computing diffs. It would make
> their output inconsistent.
I do think it is the right thing to do. With your shifting heuristics,
"git diff" would attribute an addition of a whole block more
correctly, e.g.
}
+foo {
+ bar
+ baz
+}
instead of attributing the tail of the new thing to the old author,
and the "blame" should take advantage of the better heuristics as
well.