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Tue Dec 16 09:44:06 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-December/084391.html

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> If you reindent, much of the history of the file is essentially lost -- 
> "svn blame" will blame whoever reindented the code, and it's a pain to 
> go back.

I am not a subversion specialist, but it appears this part can be handled 
gracefully by passing -b (ignore space change) to an external diff command 
svn blame can rely on (svn blame -x -ub ...). At least, it seems to work 
on my station (GNU Diffutils, Subversion 1.5.1)!

--
Sylvain

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