Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> Or teach git-blame to have its own pretend mechanism, and remove the >> pretend mechanism from sha1-file.c. > > I think that would be ideal, but I'm not sure if it's feasible due to > the layering of the various modules. Sorry, but I do not get why we want command-line specific pretend mechanism. When one part of the system wants to behave as if object X exists, doesn't that part want other parts of the system to share that same world view to be consistent? I am mostly reacting to "would be _ideal_"; if it were "if we have per-system ad-hoc pretend mechanism, things like this and that would become easier to implement, even though that is an ugly hack", I may agree when I see examples of things that get easier, though.
