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Inspired by the cvs annotate documentation improve and expand the man page to also mention the limitations of file annotations. Since people coming from the SVN/CVS world might first look here, also briefly advertise how the pickaxe interface makes it easy to go beyond these limitation. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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git-blame(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git-blame' [-c] [-l] [-t] [-S <revs-file>] [--] <file> [<rev>]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which
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last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision.
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This report doesn't tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or
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replaced; you need to use a tool such as gitlink:git-diff[1] or the "pickaxe"
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interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph.
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Apart from supporting file annotation, git also supports searching the
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development history for when a code snippet occured in a change. This makes it
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possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied
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between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. It works by searching for
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a text string in the diff. A small example:
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$ git log --pretty=oneline -S'blame_usage'
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5040f17eba15504bad66b14a645bddd9b015ebb7 blame -S <ancestry-file>
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ea4c7f9bf69e781dd0cd88d2bccb2bf5cc15c9a7 git-blame: Make the output
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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OPTIONS
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-------
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-c, --compatibility::
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Use the same output mode as gitlink:git-annotate[1] (Default: off).
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-l, --long::
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Show long rev (Default: off).
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-t, --time::
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Show raw timestamp (Default: off).
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-S, --rev-file <revs-file>::
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Use revs from revs-file instead of calling gitlink:git-rev-list[1].
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-h, --help::
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Show help message.
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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gitlink:git-annotate[1]
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AUTHOR
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Written by Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>.
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GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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