On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote: > the -C option makes git-blame look for copied lines from other files. > I'm quoting the manpage: > > In addition to -M, detect lines copied from other files that were > modified in the same commit. This is useful when you reorganize your > program and move code around across files. When this option is given > twice, the command looks for copies from all other files in the parent > for the commit that creates the file in addition. > > Fact is, it can be given up to three times. > See this comment in builtin-blame.c: > > /* > * -C enables copy from removed files; > * -C -C enables copy from existing files, but only > * when blaming a new file; > * -C -C -C enables copy from existing files for > * everybody > */ > > Specifying -C three times is the only way to find content that was > copied from unmodified source files after the file being annotated was > created. Works very well, and is precisely the feature I was urgently > looking for.
Hi Nikolaus, can you suggest some wording?, I'm not sure how to describe this functionality properly. Here's upstream's documentation source http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/blame-options.txt;hb=HEAD Thanks, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
