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Re: Suggestion to rename "blame" of the "git blame" command to something more neutral

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Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date
Jul 7, 2022, 17:00 UTC
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<20220707170032.GR17705@kitsune.suse.cz>
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 05:35:41PM +0200, Jonas Aschenbrenner wrote:
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> Similar to the change of the default branch name from "master" to
> "main" to use a word which has less negative associations,
> I suggest to replace the word "blame" with something more neutral.
> Maybe "annotate". That word seems to already be used at some places
> for this Git feature.
Have you seen git-annotate(1)
Best regards
Michal
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  1. Jonas AschenbrennerJul 7, 2022
  2. Michal SuchánekJul 7, 2022
  3. Jonas AschenbrennerJul 7, 2022
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2022
  5. RetoJul 10, 2022
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 10, 2022
  7. Michal SuchánekJul 10, 2022
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2022
  9. Michal SuchánekJul 10, 2022
  10. rsbecker@nexbridge.comJul 10, 2022
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 11, 2022
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