Re: Why is AuthorDate displayed on git-blame?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 8, 2020, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20200808003500.GA3751874@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1rkjljus.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 11:17:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Raymond E. Pasco" <ray@ameretat.dev> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps the following
> > adaptation:
> >
> > --first-parent::
> > 	Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge
> > 	commit. This option can be used to determine when a line
> > 	was introduced to a particular integration branch, rather
> > 	than when it was introduced to the history overall.
> 
> Yup.  We somehow forgot to document it when we did 95a4fb0e (blame:
> handle --first-parent, 2015-09-15).  The text reads well.

My fault. I think I imagined it would just be included along with other rev-list options, but the text above makes it clear why we'd want to talk specifically about how it applies to blame.

-Peff