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Re: Let us not call it git blame

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2023, 12:08 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 02 2023, Dinesh Dharmawardena wrote:
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> Hi
>
> I am writing to you to request that the term blame in git blame be
> replaced with something that does not sound so blameful. I’m an SRE
> and we actively try promote a blameless culture as such industry
> tooling should also follow suit imo. Progressively phasing this term
> out with a better alias would be great.

You might be interested in a patch I had to address this, posted a while ago: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190401101246.21418-1-avarab@gmail.com/

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Message 9 of 10 in “Let us not call it git blame”
  1. Dinesh DharmawardenaMar 2, 2023
  2. brian m. carlsonMar 2, 2023
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2023
  4. rsbecker@nexbridge.comMar 3, 2023
  5. demerphqMar 3, 2023
  6. brian m. carlsonMar 3, 2023
  7. demerphqMar 3, 2023
  8. Peter HadlawMar 3, 2023
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 7, 2023
  10. Elijah LynnMar 9, 2023

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