Hi Barret, This works pretty well for the typical reformatting use case now. I've run it over every commit of every .c file in the git project root, both forwards and backwards with every combination of -w/-M/-C and can't get it to crash so I think it's good in that respect. However, it can still attribute lines to the wrong parent line. See https://pypi.org/project/autopep8/#usage for an example reformatting that it gets a bit confused on. The patch I submitted handles this case correctly because it uses information about the more similar lines to decide how more ambiguous lines should be matched. You also gave an example of: commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x, void *y); commit-b 12) void new_func_2(void *x, void *y); Being reformatted to: commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x, commit-b 12) void *y); commit-b 13) void new_func_2(void *x, commit-b 14) void *y); The patch I submitted handles this case correctly, assigning line 12 to commit-a because it scales the parent line numbers according to the relative diff chunk sizes instead of assuming a 1-1 mapping. So I do ask that you incorporate more of my patch, including the test code. It is more complex but I hope this demonstrates that there are reasons for that. Happy to provide more examples or explanation if it would help. On the other hand if you have examples where it falls short then I'd be interested to know. The other major use case that I'm interested in is renaming. In this case, the git-hyper-blame approach of mapping line numbers 1-1 works perfectly. Here's an example. Before: commit-a 11) Position MyClass::location(Offset O) { commit-b 12) return P + O; commit-c 13) } After: commit-a 11) Position MyClass::location(Offset offset) { commit-a 12) return position + offset; commit-c 13) } With the fuzzy matching, line 12 gets incorrectly matched to parent line 11 because the similarity of "position" and "offset" outweighs the similarity of "return". I'm considering adding even more complexity to my patch such that parts of a line that have already been matched can't be matched again by other lines. But the other possibility is that we let the user choose the heuristic. For a commit where they know that line numbers haven't changed they could choose 1-1 matching, while for a reformatting commit they could use fuzzy matching. I welcome your thoughts. -Michael
