git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

git blame --follow

From
WRWolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
Date
Mar 15, 2011, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID
<201103151644.44360.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
git log --follow filename
shows the full history, while
git blame --follow filename

blames everything to the latest commit (which was a file rename)

it would be nice if --follow were also supported by git blame. Actually git blame accepts --follow without an error message, it just ignores it. git help blame does not mention --follow

using latest git from master git version 1.7.4.1.234.ga3513

-- 
Wolfgang
Next: Junio C Hamano
Message 1 of 6 in “git blame --follow”
  1. Wolfgang RohdewaldMar 15, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2011
  3. Wolfgang RohdewaldMar 15, 2011
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 17, 2011
  5. Wolfgang RohdewaldMar 17, 2011
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 17, 2011

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.