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

From
Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date
Jul 10, 2022, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20220710145502.GT17705@kitsune.suse.cz>
In-Reply-To
<220710.86r12t82ea.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 04:31:18PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 07 2022, Jonas Aschenbrenner wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> What do you think about this old patch of mine to add a 'git praise'?:
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190401101246.21418-1-avarab@gmail.com/
Since you are asking .. I think it completely misses the point.

I would consider it effective if users of git-praise(1) needed no knowledge of existence of git-blame(1).

Thanks
Michal
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Message 7 of 12 in “Suggestion to rename "blame" of the "git blame" command to something more neutral”
  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
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2022

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