On 8/22/08, John Peacock <john.peacock_at_havurah-software.org> wrote:
> Tom Browder wrote:
> > That sounds like a good idea. Am I correct that the script would have
...
> 1) "blame" relies on which revision changed which line for its display
> (which has nothing to do with whether the commit was substantial or just
> whitespace);
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> > Couldn't the script inject a comment somehow?
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> Comment what? You obvious would note in the commit for the mass reformat
> that this was done, but you will have "lost" the immediately accessible
> line-oriented history of that file (see below).
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> > > you won't be able to tell who added a feature. If this is acceptable,
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> Because the first time someone reformats a file, all of those changed lines
> are now attributed to that user, rather than whoever added the lines in the
> first place. Now, it is possible to use blame with a specific revision
> number to go back before the reformat, but it is not nearly as useful.
Thanks, John. Now I understand the white space and formatting issues
better. I haven't used the blame feature because I've not been in a
heavy multi-developer situation locally before.
I'll do some more investigating and revisit this later.
-Tom
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