[OE-core] [oe] Style issue for recipes

[Andreas Müller]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Enrico Scholz
<enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> "Peter A. Bigot" <pab at pabigot.com> writes:
>
>>>> .inc files make sense with current packaging because they are revision
>>>> control friendly.  E.g. you can put the logic into .inc and follow its
>>>> history with 'git log' which is not possible when there are only the
>>>> versioned .bb files.
>>> You can follow changes to the .inc but not anything that went in and
>>> out of the .bb, but I do concede that git not tracking the renames
>>> directly does mean some histories are harder to track (although simple
>>> to follow as the commit where the history stops will tell you where to
>>> pick it up again).
>>
>> git log --follow foo_1.2.bb handles 90% of this:
>
> it's not only 'git log'; it is 'git blame' too and because git does not
> support renaming of files natively, the 'git log --follow' method is
> error prone and might compare the wrong files resp. fail completely when
> there are too much changes.
>
Did you ever use 'git blame' for few lines most recipes have?

Andreas