On Sun, 31 Dec 2017, Richard Stallman wrote: > The other is that this > > > Regarding the overall benefit of it, I think you miss the point that VCS > > history (containing the diffs) is not distributed with the tarballs. > > For the users the NEWS and ChangeLog files are their easiest way to > > understand why a function doesn't act as it previously does or a file > > doesn't exist anymore when testing a new release. So IMO the benefit is > > for the users not the maintainers. > > does not seem simple -- quite the contrary, it seems that it would > require a fair amount of expertise in using Git. > > However, if people write a set of scripts to search for all changes in > a particular kind fo C entity, and likewise for each other language, > that would deal with the complexity once and for all. That might be an > ok solution.
It's "git log -L :<funcname>:<file>". (If a particular project is using a language for which that does not work well by default, that project can add a .gitattributes file and provide instructions on what to add to .git/config in your checkout to make -L work better for that language.) -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
