From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 00:58:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git related v0.3
Message-ID: <60aeee9a14f13_770c208cd@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX6gOeTrLJwL-Zp5hEEbWCipioPgNKt7Tc41ixcQLQshiw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> The general heuristic I use, which I've found to be much better than
> git-blame is:
> 
>  1. Find substrings of code I'm directly removing/altering, and
> functions I'm removing/altering
>  2. Do git log --reverse -p -S'<substr>' (maybe with -- file) for a
> list of substrings

v1.0 of git-related has a similar tool: git-who, which you can use to do
precisely that:

  git who -S'<substr>'

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras