[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Inconsistency of Added-files and Removed-files

[Stefan Monnier]

> fai revisions --modified FILE:LINE can tell you which revisions added the
> current contents of LINE to FILE.  For lines with unique content, this is
> the same as "the last revision that modified this line".

I didn't think of relying on the "mostly-unique-ness" of lines, but it's
a good idea.

> Exact matching seems possible, but requires more sophisticated diff parsing.
> One must recalculate the line numbers every time lines are added or removed
> above the lines in question.

That's what I was thinking of.  I think both approaches have their
advantages (e.g. yours has the advantage of easily handling the case where
a diff just moves a function from one place to another in the same file).


        Stefan