On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'd personally rather *not* have git-gui make the -w/-M/-C choice for me. > Why don't you just allow the user to say? Sometimes I might want to see > who introduced broken whitespace. Let me say > > git gui blame -w filename.c > > please? Instead of making that choice for me, and then blaming git for > something that wasn't git's problem. Side note - this ended up being one reason why "gitk" is so good. It just passed down the arguments to "git-rev-list", and it allowed me to improve on the original gitk without gitk ever even _realizing_ it was improved upon. All the pathname filtering etc was done without gitk ever learning about it - it "just worked". Linus - 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
