On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 5:42:23 PM UTC+2, Simon King wrote: > > Sure, git blame is able ignore whitespace. But still it would not be > able to determine if you did a substantial change in code or if you just > mechanically changed, say, function names from the API of an old third > party package to the API of the new package version. >
Thats trivial to see in the git blame output, isolated line changes a long time after the surrounding code. Of course thats not the same as a human-written "AUTHORS" block, but mostly because the human-written changelog is typically wrong and misses stuff. Theoretically we miss semantics, but in practice many authors don't updated AUTHORS blocks so those don't have the semantics either. Its just a feel-good tag. Thats not wrong, but not really helpful as part of the online help either. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
