On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 06:56:29AM +0000, Peter.Dolland@xxxxxx wrote:
> Please see my original observation below.
> Is it possible, to extend the git-log syntax in the way, that it
> accepts the short -L option (without :file) of blame in unique cases
> (only one file is logged or respectively the -L expression may be
> valid for all logged files)? It would be nice for command line users!
That would be nice, but I suspect in many cases the regex will be less
unique than you might hope. E.g., if you're looking for the log of a
particular function, you care about where it's defined. But unless you
write your regex very carefully, you're going to also match places where
it's called.
I have a hacky script (included below) that uses an already-built ctags
index to pick the correct file.
> Alternatively I could also imagine the extension of the blame
> functionality in the direction to see a whole history instead of only
> the last modification.
Have you tried using a blame interface that supports parent-reblaming
(i.e., once you blame a line to a particular commit, you can restart the
blame from that commit's parent, digging further into history each
time)? I use "tig blame" for this, and I find that I very rarely
actually turn to "log -L".
-Peff
-- >8 --
#!/usr/bin/env perl
if (!@ARGV) {
print STDERR "usage: git flog [options] <function>\n";
exit 1;
}
my $func = pop @ARGV;
my $file = get_file_from_tags($func);
my $regex = '[^A-Za-z_]' . $func . '[^A-Za-z0-9_]';
exec qw(git log), "-L:$regex:$file", @ARGV;
exit 1;
sub get_file_from_tags {
my $token = shift;
open(my $fh, '<', 'tags')
or die "unable to open tags: $!\n";
while (<$fh>) {
chomp;
# this isn't exactly right, as the Ex command may contain
# embedded tabs, but it's accurate for the token and filename,
# which come before, and probably good enough to match extension fields
# which come after
my @fields = split /\t/;
next unless $fields[0] eq $token;
# only look for functions; assumes your ctags uses the "kind"
# extension field. Note also that some implementations write the "kind:"
# header and some do not. This handles both.
next unless grep { /^(kind:\s*)?f$/ } @fields;
# there may be more, but we don't have any way of disambiguating,
# so just return the first match
return $fields[1];
}
die "unknown token: $token\n";
}
