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Re: Blamming a diff between two commits?

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SMSamuel Lucas Vaz de Mello <samuellucas@datacom.ind.br>
Date
Feb 17, 2009, 14:09 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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>> Is there any way to git blame (or annotate) a diff between two commits?
> 
> If you do not mean the diff, but a commit range:
> 
> 	$ git blame A..B -- file
> 
> "Unblameable" lines will be shown with a prefix ^A (not literal, of 
> course, but the short commit name of A).
> 
This work fine for lines that were added or changed, but not for deleted lines.
If a commit in the range just delete a couple of lines and adds nothing, the whole file is marked as "unblameable" as the deleted lines doesn't exist anymore.
 - Samuel
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