Preserving metadata for blame/praise through whitespace changes

Michael B. Trausch mbt at zest.trausch.us
Mon Jul 6 21:11:37 BST 2009


On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>>  1. Is there something I should have done that would have preserved
>> "blame" data?
>>  2. If there is nothing, is there some way to educate bzr that
>> whitespace-only changes should not factor in to things like diffs and
>> output of commands like "bzr blame", or perhaps, be able to be removed
>> from consideration by the addition of an extra parameter?
>
> It isn't something that you can do now, but adding a "bzr annotate
> - --ignore-whitespace" is something that I would like to eventually get to
> with my refactoring of annotate.
[snip]
> Keep an eye on:
> lp:~jameinel/bzr/1.17-rework-annotate
>
> I probably won't do --ignore-whitespace as part of landing that branch,
> but when I implement it, I'm sure it will be built from there.
>

Ahh, nifty.  However it winds up landing, it will be very useful when it does. 
:-)  Thanks!

 	--- Mike



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