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Re: Question about Source Control

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> There's two things hg blame doesn't do which would be useful.
>
> First, the trivial one.  I don't want lines annotated by change number,
> I want them annotated by the name of the person who checked it in.  But,
> I'm sure that can be easily fixed with some simple post-processing
> filter, so it really falls into the bucket of "minor annoyances".
>
> The hard thing is I don't really want to know which change most recently
> touched the line of text.  I want to know who really wrote it.  It would
> be wonderful if hg were smart enough to be able to back-track through
> the change history and ignore trivial changes like whitespace,
> refactoring a function out of one file into another, etc.  That's the
> real meat and potatoes of "blame".  I want to know who I need to hit
> over the head with a clue-by-four once I fix a bug.

Hmm. 'git blame' can do both of those things, so I'd be very surprised
if 'hg blame' can't, at least with some extension(s). (The latter
feature is "git blame -w filename"; -w is a standard 'git diff' option
meaning "ignore whitespace".) But hey, if nothing else, you could
import your hg repo into git just to blame the file...

ChrisA

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Re: Question about Source Control Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-03-21 17:00 +1100
  Re: Question about Source Control Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-21 08:23 -0400
    Re: Question about Source Control Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 04:23 +1100
    Re: Question about Source Control Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-03-21 12:54 -0500
    Re: Question about Source Control Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-03-21 12:59 -0500
    Re: Question about Source Control Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-03-22 08:32 +1100
    Re: Question about Source Control Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 09:17 +1100

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