blame: use different author name for fake commit generated by --contents

When the --contents option is used with git blame, and the contents of
the file have lines which can't be annotated by the history being
blamed, the user will see an author of "Not Committed Yet". This is
similar to the way blame handles working tree contents when blaming
without a revision.

This is slightly confusing since this data isn't the working copy and
while it is technically "not committed yet", its also coming from an
external file. Replace this author name with "External file
(--contents)" to better differentiate such lines from actual working
copy lines.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Glen Choo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: jacob-keller

Documentation/blame-options.txt

@@ -64,11 +64,9 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[]
 	manual page.
 
 --contents <file>::
-	Pretend the file being annotated has a commit with the
-	contents from the named file and a parent of <rev>,
-	defaulting to HEAD when no <rev> is specified. You may
-	specify '-' to make the command read from the standard
-	input for the file contents.
+	Annotate using the contents from the named file, starting from <rev>
+	if it is specified, and HEAD otherwise. You may specify '-' to make
+	the command read from the standard input for the file contents.
 
 --date <format>::
 	Specifies the format used to output dates. If --date is not

blame.c

@@ -206,8 +206,12 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct repository *r,
 
 	origin = make_origin(commit, path);
 
-	ident = fmt_ident("Not Committed Yet", "not.committed.yet",
-			WANT_BLANK_IDENT, NULL, 0);
+	if (contents_from)
+		ident = fmt_ident("External file (--contents)", "external.file",
+				  WANT_BLANK_IDENT, NULL, 0);
+	else
+		ident = fmt_ident("Not Committed Yet", "not.committed.yet",
+				  WANT_BLANK_IDENT, NULL, 0);
 	strbuf_addstr(&msg, "tree 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000\n");
 	for (parent = commit->parents; parent; parent = parent->next)
 		strbuf_addf(&msg, "parent %s\n",

t/annotate-tests.sh

@@ -72,14 +72,21 @@ test_expect_success 'blame 1 author' '
 	check_count A 2
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'blame working copy' '
+	test_when_finished "git restore file" &&
+	echo "1A quick brown fox jumps over the" >file &&
+	echo "another lazy dog" >>file &&
+	check_count A 1 "Not Committed Yet" 1
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'blame with --contents' '
 	check_count --contents=file A 2
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'blame with --contents changed' '
 	echo "1A quick brown fox jumps over the" >contents &&
 	echo "another lazy dog" >>contents &&
-	check_count --contents=contents A 1 "Not Committed Yet" 1
+	check_count --contents=contents A 1 "External file (--contents)" 1
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'blame in a bare repo without starting commit' '
@@ -109,7 +116,7 @@ test_expect_success 'blame 2 authors' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'blame with --contents and revision' '
-	check_count -h testTag --contents=file A 2 "Not Committed Yet" 2
+	check_count -h testTag --contents=file A 2 "External file (--contents)" 2
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'setup B1 lines (branch1)' '