From: Chris Packham Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:46:48 GMT Subject: Re: Documentation for git gui blame Message-ID: <4CB4D748.9040907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 12/10/10 12:50, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Chris Packham writes: > >> On 12/10/10 09:12, Joshua Jensen wrote: >>> Is there any documentation for git gui blame >> >> Not sure but it's displaying the same info as git blame so start with >> man git-blame. That probably covers most of what you want to know >> >>> that explains what the two left columns containing 4 letter SHAs are? >> >> These are the first 4 characters of the commit id that last >> added/changed that line of code. > > Note that there are *two* columns because one column contains plain blame, > and second contains blame with code movement and copying detection and > discarding changes in whitespace (like "git blame -C -C -w"). So if those > columns are different, one column would show commit that put code here, > and the other would show commit that changed this code. Sorry, my bad I should have actually taken a look before responding (and read the question properly).