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2015-10-30blame: allow blame --reverse --first-parent when it makes senseLibravatar Max Kirillov1-1/+1
Allow combining --reverse and --first-parent if initial commit of specified range is at the first-parent chain starting from the final commit. Disable the prepare_revision_walk()'s builtin children collection, instead picking only the ones which are along the first parent chain. Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-30blame: test to describe use of blame --reverse --first-parentLibravatar Max Kirillov1-0/+36
Reverse blame can be used to locate removal of lines which does not change adjacent lines. Such edits do not appear in non-reverse blame, because the adjacent lines last changed commit is older history, before the edit. For a big and active project which uses topic branches, or analogous feature, for example pull-requests, the history can contain many concurrent branches, and even after an edit merged into the target branch, there are still many (sometimes several tens or even hundreds) topic branch which do not contain it: a0--a1-----*a2-*a3-a4...-*a100 |\ / / / | b0-B1..bN / / |\ / / | c0.. ..cN / \ / z0.. ..zN Here, the '*'s mark the first parent in merge, and uppercase B1 - the commit where the line being blamed for was removed. Since commits cN-zN do not contain B1, they still have the line removed in B1, and reverse blame can report that the last commit for the line was zN (meaning that it was removed in a100). In fact it really does return some very late commit, and this makes it unusable for finding the B1 commit. The search could be done by blame --reverse --first-parent. For range a0..a100 it would return a1, and then only one additional blame along the a0..bN will return the desired commit b0. But combining --reverse and --first-parent was forbidden in 95a4fb0eac, because incorrectly specified range could produce unexpected and meaningless result. Add test which describes the expected behavior of `blame --reverse --first-parent` in the case described above. Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>