Re: Documentation for git gui blame

From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2010, 02:32 UTC
Message-ID: <4CB51A32.1040304@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3iq176vh2.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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From: Jakub Narebski
Date: 10/12/2010 1:50 PM

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> Chris Packham<judge.packham@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> On 12/10/10 09:12, Joshua Jensen wrote:
>>>   Is there any documentation for git gui blame 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.

Ah, great!  That's what the other column is all about!

Thanks, Chris, for the Blame Parent Commit info, too.

Josh