[x264-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add FFmpeg-style silent build rules

[James Almer]

On 04/04/14 3:30 PM, Stephen Hutchinson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
>> This was written by Mans back in the day, so you should not set yourself
>> as author.  Also, the idea of silencing the build comes from autotools,
>> śo these are autotools-style silent build rules, not FFmpeg-style.
>>
> 
> Some time ago I'd actually tried searching the git repo to find which commit
> introduced them, but I clearly wasn't using the right search term (I found it
> just now by looking for 'brief' instead of 'silent').  Will fix.
> 

Use git blame.
As long as there were no cosmetic reindents/renamings that modified the lines 
in question, it should show you the commit that introduced them.
If something changed the lines after the initial commit then it gets a bit more 
complex.