Re: In-depth git blame?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 2, 2011, 21:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20110302213437.GG20400@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110302212951.GB24660@m62s10.vlinux.de>

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:29:51PM +0100, Peter Baumann wrote:

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> > If you use "git gui blame" or "tig blame", both have a "blame from
> > parent commit" feature. This restarts the blame using the content as
> > it was just before the answer you just got, so you can recursively
> > dig.  It's unfortunately a somewhat manual process.
> > 
>  
> Hm. I guess pressing 'B' will blame the parent commit in tig.  But I
> can't figure out how to navigate back to the old commit (before
> pressing 'B')?  Any hints appreciated!

No, it is "," (comma) from the blame viewer in tig to blame starting from the parent of the blamed commit of the highlighted line.

Doing "B" will just re-blame starting at that commit, which will of course give you the same answer (I think it is a global "go to blame view", so it is more useful when you are _not_ in the blame viewer already).

And if you are confused at any point, "h" should give you a context-sensitive list of keystrokes.

-Peff