Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm curious, how would it be different, if they blame down to the same > commit? My understanding was "unblamable" and "ignored" are tied to > commits. Let me include an example, let's blame `varint.h`. First have a look at the non-porcelain format: $ git blame varint.h -l d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 1) #ifndef VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 2) #define VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 3) 554544276a604c144df45efcb060c80aa322088c (Denton Liu 2019-04-29 04:28:14 -0400 4) int encode_varint(uintmax_t, unsigned char *); 554544276a604c144df45efcb060c80aa322088c (Denton Liu 2019-04-29 04:28:14 -0400 5) uintmax_t decode_varint(const unsigned char **); d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 6) d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 7) #endif /* VARINT_H */ Now if we put `554544276a604c144df45efcb060c80aa322088c` in `.git-blame-ignore-revs`: $ git -c blame.markUnblamableLines=true -c blame.markIgnoredLines=true blame varint.h --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs -l d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 1) #ifndef VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 2) #define VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 3) ?d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1f (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 4) int encode_varint(uintmax_t, unsigned char *); ?d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1f (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 5) uintmax_t decode_varint(const unsigned char **); d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 6) d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb (Junio C Hamano 2012-04-03 15:53:08 -0700 7) #endif /* VARINT_H */ If we compare that to the porcelain format: $ git blame varint.h -l --porcelain d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 1 1 3 author Junio C Hamano author-mail <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> author-time 1333493588 author-tz -0700 committer Junio C Hamano committer-mail <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> committer-time 1333495484 committer-tz -0700 summary varint: make it available outside the context of pack filename varint.h #ifndef VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 2 2 #define VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 3 3 554544276a604c144df45efcb060c80aa322088c 4 4 2 author Denton Liu author-mail <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> author-time 1556526494 author-tz -0400 committer Junio C Hamano committer-mail <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> committer-time 1557037206 committer-tz +0900 summary *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch previous ffac537e6cbbf934b08745a378932722df287a53 varint.h filename varint.h int encode_varint(uintmax_t, unsigned char *); 554544276a604c144df45efcb060c80aa322088c 5 5 uintmax_t decode_varint(const unsigned char **); d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 8 6 2 d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 9 7 #endif /* VARINT_H */ And now with the `.git-blame-ignore-revs` file: $ git -c blame.markUnblamableLines=true -c blame.markIgnoredLines=true blame varint.h --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs -l --porcelain d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 1 1 3 author Junio C Hamano author-mail <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> author-time 1333493588 author-tz -0700 committer Junio C Hamano committer-mail <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> committer-time 1333495484 committer-tz -0700 summary varint: make it available outside the context of pack filename varint.h #ifndef VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 2 2 #define VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 3 3 d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 6 4 2 int encode_varint(uintmax_t, unsigned char *); d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 7 5 uintmax_t decode_varint(const unsigned char **); d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 8 6 2 d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 9 7 #endif /* VARINT_H */ So every line now blames down to commit d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb. The lines which used to blame down to 554544276a604c144df45efcb060c80aa322088c should be marked as "ignored", but we only emit the details once for each commit. The commit details (author, committer) are only relevant once, but the "ignored" info can differ for each line (as you also can see in the non-porcelain format). We could make the output look something like: $ git -c blame.markUnblamableLines=true -c blame.markIgnoredLines=true blame varint.h --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs -l --porcelain d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 1 1 3 author Junio C Hamano author-mail <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> author-time 1333493588 author-tz -0700 committer Junio C Hamano committer-mail <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> committer-time 1333495484 committer-tz -0700 summary varint: make it available outside the context of pack filename varint.h #ifndef VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 2 2 #define VARINT_H d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 3 3 d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 6 4 2 ignored int encode_varint(uintmax_t, unsigned char *); d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 7 5 ignored uintmax_t decode_varint(const unsigned char **); d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 8 6 2 d2c1898571a6a2324593e92163e8754880e0c1fb 9 7 #endif /* VARINT_H */ It feels odd to me only the "ignored" info is emitted and the rest of the details isn't. But that might be just me... -- Toon