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Raymond E. Pasco
11bc12ae1e blame-options.txt: document --first-parent option
blame/annotate have supported --first-parent since commit 95a4fb0eac
("blame: handle --first-parent"). This adds a blurb on that option to
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Raymond E. Pasco <ray@ameretat.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-06 14:08:10 -07:00
Barret Rhoden
8934ac8c92 blame: add config options for the output of ignored or unblamable lines
When ignoring commits, the commit that is blamed might not be
responsible for the change, due to the inaccuracy of our heuristic.
Users might want to know when a particular line has a potentially
inaccurate blame.

Furthermore, guess_line_blames() may fail to find any parent commit for
a given line touched by an ignored commit.  Those 'unblamable' lines
remain blamed on an ignored commit.  Users might want to know if a line
is unblamable so that they do not spend time investigating a commit they
know is uninteresting.

This patch adds two config options to mark these two types of lines in
the output of blame.

The first option can identify ignored lines by specifying
blame.markIgnoredLines.  When this option is set, each blame line that
was blamed on a commit other than the ignored commit is marked with a
'?'.

For example:
	278b6158d6fdb (Barret Rhoden  2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)
appears as:
	?278b6158d6fd (Barret Rhoden  2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)

where the '?' is placed before the commit, and the hash has one fewer
characters.

Sometimes we are unable to even guess at what ancestor commit touched a
line.  These lines are 'unblamable.'  The second option,
blame.markUnblamableLines, will mark the line with '*'.

For example, say we ignore e5e8d36d04cbe, yet we are unable to blame
this line on another commit:
	e5e8d36d04cbe (Barret Rhoden  2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)
appears as:
	*e5e8d36d04cb (Barret Rhoden  2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)

When these config options are used together, every line touched by an
ignored commit will be marked with either a '?' or a '*'.

Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-16 11:36:23 +09:00
Barret Rhoden
ae3f36dea1 blame: add the ability to ignore commits and their changes
Commits that make formatting changes or function renames are often not
interesting when blaming a file.  A user may deem such a commit as 'not
interesting' and want to ignore and its changes it when assigning blame.

For example, say a file has the following git history / rev-list:

---O---A---X---B---C---D---Y---E---F

Commits X and Y both touch a particular line, and the other commits do
not:

X: "Take a third parameter"
-MyFunc(1, 2);
+MyFunc(1, 2, 3);

Y: "Remove camelcase"
-MyFunc(1, 2, 3);
+my_func(1, 2, 3);

git-blame will blame Y for the change.  I'd like to be able to ignore Y:
both the existence of the commit as well as any changes it made.  This
differs from -S rev-list, which specifies the list of commits to
process for the blame.  We would still process Y, but just don't let the
blame 'stick.'

This patch adds the ability for users to ignore a revision with
--ignore-rev=rev, which may be repeated.  They can specify a set of
files of full object names of revs, e.g. SHA-1 hashes, one per line.  A
single file may be specified with the blame.ignoreRevFile config option
or with --ignore-rev-file=file.  Both the config option and the command
line option may be repeated multiple times.  An empty file name "" will
clear the list of revs from previously processed files.  Config options
are processed before command line options.

For a typical use case, projects will maintain the file containing
revisions for commits that perform mass reformatting, and their users
have the option to ignore all of the commits in that file.

Additionally, a user can use the --ignore-rev option for one-off
investigation.  To go back to the example above, X was a substantive
change to the function, but not the change the user is interested in.
The user inspected X, but wanted to find the previous change to that
line - perhaps a commit that introduced that function call.

To make this work, we can't simply remove all ignored commits from the
rev-list.  We need to diff the changes introduced by Y so that we can
ignore them.  We let the blames get passed to Y, just like when
processing normally.  When Y is the target, we make sure that Y does not
*keep* any blames.  Any changes that Y is responsible for get passed to
its parent.  Note we make one pass through all of the scapegoats
(parents) to attempt to pass blame normally; we don't know if we *need*
to ignore the commit until we've checked all of the parents.

The blame_entry will get passed up the tree until we find a commit that
has a diff chunk that affects those lines.

One issue is that the ignored commit *did* make some change, and there is
no general solution to finding the line in the parent commit that
corresponds to a given line in the ignored commit.  That makes it hard
to attribute a particular line within an ignored commit's diff
correctly.

For example, the parent of an ignored commit has this, say at line 11:

commit-a 11) #include "a.h"
commit-b 12) #include "b.h"

Commit X, which we will ignore, swaps these lines:

commit-X 11) #include "b.h"
commit-X 12) #include "a.h"

We can pass that blame entry to the parent, but line 11 will be
attributed to commit A, even though "include b.h" came from commit B.
The blame mechanism will be looking at the parent's view of the file at
line number 11.

ignore_blame_entry() is set up to allow alternative algorithms for
guessing per-line blames.  Any line that is not attributed to the parent
will continue to be blamed on the ignored commit as if that commit was
not ignored.  Upcoming patches have the ability to detect these lines
and mark them in the blame output.

The existing algorithm is simple: blame each line on the corresponding
line in the parent's diff chunk.  Any lines beyond that stay with the
target.

For example, the parent of an ignored commit has this, say at line 11:

commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x, void *y);
commit-b 12) void new_func_2(void *x, void *y);
commit-c 13) some_line_c
commit-d 14) some_line_d

After a commit 'X', we have:

commit-X 11) void new_func_1(void *x,
commit-X 12)                 void *y);
commit-X 13) void new_func_2(void *x,
commit-X 14)                 void *y);
commit-c 15) some_line_c
commit-d 16) some_line_d

Commit X nets two additionally lines: 13 and 14.  The current
guess_line_blames() algorithm will not attribute these to the parent,
whose diff chunk is only two lines - not four.

When we ignore with the current algorithm, we get:

commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x,
commit-b 12)                 void *y);
commit-X 13) void new_func_2(void *x,
commit-X 14)                 void *y);
commit-c 15) some_line_c
commit-d 16) some_line_d

Note that line 12 was blamed on B, though B was the commit for
new_func_2(), not new_func_1().  Even when guess_line_blames() finds a
line in the parent, it may still be incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-16 11:36:23 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
af4027f2de Merge branch 'bc/blame-doc-fix'
Doc update.

* bc/blame-doc-fix:
  Documentation: use brackets for optional arguments
2017-02-24 10:48:08 -08:00
brian m. carlson
2b35a9f4c7 Documentation: use brackets for optional arguments
The documentation for git blame used vertical bars for optional
arguments to -M and -C, which is unusual and potentially confusing.
Since most man pages use brackets for optional items, and that's
consistent with how we document the same options for git diff and
friends, use brackets here, too.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-22 10:22:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e1d09701a4 blame: dwim "blame --reverse OLD" as "blame --reverse OLD.."
Instead of always requiring both ends of a range, we could DWIM
"OLD", which could be a misspelt "OLD..", to be a range that ends at
the current commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-14 12:13:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
72d25911eb Merge branch 'ea/blame-progress'
"git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
too much time before emitting the first line of the result.

* ea/blame-progress:
  blame: add support for --[no-]progress option
2016-01-12 15:16:54 -08:00
Edmundo Carmona Antoranz
aba37f495e blame: add support for --[no-]progress option
Teach the command to show progress output when it takes long time to
produce the first line of output; this option cannot be used with
"--incremental" or "--porcelain" options.

git-annotate inherits the option as well.

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-16 10:18:34 -08:00
John Keeping
2df4e29c85 Documentation/blame-options: don't list date formats
This list is already incomplete (missing "raw") and we're about to add
new formats.  Remove it and refer to the canonical documentation in
git-log(1).

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-03 15:34:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6749850769 Merge branch 'mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex'
Documentation fix.

* mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex:
  log -L: improve error message on malformed argument
  Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>
2015-05-05 21:00:36 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
d349e0ee60 Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>
The old wording was somehow implying that <start> and <end> were not
regular expressions. Also, the common case is to use a plain function
name here so <funcname> makes sense (the fact that it is a regular
expression is documented in line-range-format.txt).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-20 11:05:50 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
da0005b885 *config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.

 - am.keepcr
 - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
 - diff.dirstat .noprefix
 - gitcvs.usecrlfattr
 - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
 - pull.twohead
 - receive.autogc
 - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13 22:13:46 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
5bd9b79a20 blame: document multiple -L support
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:34:43 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
0ddd47193c line-range-format.txt: clarify -L:regex usage form
blame/log documentation describes -L option as:

  -L<start>,<end>
  -L:<regex>

  <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

    * number
    * /regex/
    * +offset or -offset
    * :regex

which is incorrect and confusing since :regex is not one of the valid
forms of <start> or <end>; in fact, it must be -L's lone argument.

Clarify by discussing :<regex> at the same indentation level as "<start>
and <end>...":

  -L<start>,<end>
  -L:<regex>

  <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

    * number
    * /regex/
    * +offset or -offset

  If :<regex> is given in place of <start> and <end> ...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
df83d5cf67 blame-options.txt: explain that -L <start> and <end> are optional
The ability to omit either end of the -L range is a handy but
undocumented shortcut, and is thus not easily discovered. Fix this
shortcoming.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-17 18:02:22 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
e6d2b9f6e7 blame-options.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line
Standard practice in Git documentation is for each variation of an
option (such as: -p / --porcelain) to be placed on its own line in the
OPTIONS table. The -L option does not follow suit. It cuddles
"-L <start>,<end>" and "-L :<regex>", separated by a comma. This is
inconsistent and potentially confusing since the comma separating them
is typeset the same as the comma in "<start>,<end>". Fix this by placing
each variation on its own line.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-17 18:02:22 -07:00
Thomas Rast
13b8f68c1f log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
This new syntax finds a funcname matching /pattern/, and then takes from there
up to (but not including) the next funcname.  So you can say

  git log -L:main:main.c

and it will dig up the main() function and show its line-log, provided
there are no other funcnames matching 'main'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28 10:30:04 -07:00
Bo Yang
25ed3412f8 Refactor parse_loc
We want to use the same style of -L n,m argument for 'git log -L' as
for git-blame.  Refactor the argument parsing of the range arguments
from builtin/blame.c to the (new) file that will hold the 'git log -L'
logic.

To accommodate different data structures in blame and log -L, the file
contents are abstracted away; parse_range_arg takes a callback that it
uses to get the contents of a line of the (notional) file.

The new test is for a case that made me pause during debugging: the
'blame -L with invalid end' test was the only one that noticed an
outright failure to parse the end *at all*.  So make a more explicit
test for that.

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28 10:28:41 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
87182b17ed use -h for synopsis and --help for manpage consistently
A few scripted Porcelain implementations pretend as if the routine to show
their own help messages are triggered upon "git cmd --help", but a command
line parser of "git" will hijack such a request and shows the manpage for
the cmd subcommand.

Leaving the code to handle such input is simply misleading.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-05 10:47:10 -07:00
Jeff King
ed747dd521 blame: add --line-porcelain output format
This is just like --porcelain, except that we always output
the commit information for each line, not just the first
time it is referenced. This can make quick and dirty scripts
much easier to write; see the example added to the blame
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09 15:27:50 -07:00
Bo Yang
509de65f3b blame-options.txt: Add default value for -M/-C options.
Both `-M` and `-C` have default values and the <num> argument
the last `-C` option takes effect.

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-07 09:34:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d8c416b251 blame documentation: -M/-C notice copied lines as well as moved ones
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-11 12:17:42 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
88d50e78c3 Document git-blame triple -C option
Lift the explanation of -CCC option in the source to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-14 21:54:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
88f78ce843 Merge branch 'dm/maint-docco'
* dm/maint-docco:
  Documentation: reword example text in git-bisect.txt.
  Documentation: reworded the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt.
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt.
  Documentation: reword the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-archive.txt.
2009-03-21 23:24:46 -07:00
David J. Mellor
b89510f024 Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 12:08:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
72e3c32bef Merge branch 'el/blame-date'
* el/blame-date:
  Make git blame's date output format configurable, like git log
2009-03-11 13:47:12 -07:00
Eugene Letuchy
31653c1abc Make git blame's date output format configurable, like git log
Add the following:

 - git config value blame.date that expects one of the git log date
   formats (e.g. relative,local,default,iso,...);

 - git blame command line option --date expects one of the git
   log date formats;

 - documentation in blame-options.txt;

 - git blame uses the appropriate date.c functions and enums to
   make sense of the date format and provide appropriate data;

git blame continues to line up the output columns by padding the date
column up to the max width of the chosen date format.

The date format for git blame without both blame.date and --date continues
to be ISO for backwards compatibility.

git annotate ignores the date format specifiers and continues to uses the
ISO format, as before.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Letuchy <eugene@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-05 22:56:13 -08:00
David J. Mellor
a7d64b52da Documentation: minor grammatical fixes.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-02 12:34:54 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
b452cc16d8 Document git blame --reverse.
This was introduced in 85af7929ee but
not documented outside the commit message.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-19 23:22:18 -08:00
Alexander Gavrilov
69cd8f6342 builtin-blame: Reencode commit messages according to git-log rules.
Currently git-blame outputs text from the commit messages
(e.g. the author name and the summary string) as-is, without
even providing any information about the encoding used for
the data. It makes interpreting the data in multilingual
environment very difficult.

This commit changes the blame implementation to recode the
messages using the rules used by other commands like git-log.
Namely, the target encoding can be specified through the
i18n.commitEncoding or i18n.logOutputEncoding options, or
directly on the command line using the --encoding parameter.

Converting the encoding before output seems to be more
friendly to the porcelain tools than simply providing the
value of the encoding header, and does not require changing
the output format.

If anybody needs the old behavior, it is possible to
achieve it by specifying --encoding=none.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-21 14:09:34 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -07:00
Tim Stoakes
527270689c Fix typo in 'blame' documentation.
Signed-off-by: Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-09 20:22:23 -08:00
Dan McGee
5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:

@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
 # Inline macros.
 # Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
 # (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
 # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
 (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]

This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3955d994de Fix formatting of git-blame documentation.
blame-options.txt did not format multi-paragraph option description
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-10 00:47:53 -07:00
Andrew Ruder
a44f88e251 Update -L documentation for git-blame/git-annotate
Documenting alternate ways to use -L:

-L /regex/,end
-L start,+offset

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-26 22:43:10 -07:00
Andrew Ruder
635f4a30f0 Update git-annotate/git-blame documentation
Moved options that pertained to both git-blame and git-annotate to a
common file blame-options.txt.

builtin-blame.c: Removed --compatibility, --long, --time from the
short usage as they are not handled in the code.

Documentation/git-blame.txt: Removed common options to git-annotate.
Added documentation for --score-debug.  Removed --compatibility.
Adjusted usage at top to not wrap on 80 columns.

Documentation/git-annotate.txt: Using common options blame-options.txt.

Documentation/blame-options.txt: Added -b note about associated config
option, added --root note about associated config option, added
documentation for --show-stats.  Removed --long, --time, --rev-file as
those options do not really exist.  Added documentation for -M/-C taking
an optional score argument for detection of moved lines.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16 01:14:46 -07:00