Re: Kidney blame's behaviour and edge cases

Doug Robinson wrote on Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:10:49 -0400:
> Daniel:
>
> I think that simply enabling M<N (where it is now an error) will create the
> situation where the user makes a mistake, gets something they don't expect
> and tries to interpret it based on their desire - leading to confusion. I
> believe M<N should still be an error. A new option (--reverse ?) should be
> required to make it clear that the user wants the reverse blame walk.

Sorry, disagree.

diff -r 1:5 != diff -r 5:1
log -r 1:5 != log -r 5:1
merge -r 4:5 != merge -r 5:4

With all that in mind, I still think that making 'blame -r 5:4' and
'blame -r 4:5' do different things is the correct course of action.

Cheers,

Daniel
Received on 2013-06-14 11:01:38 CEST