From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:49:13 GMT
Subject: Re: feature request: git annotate -w like git blame -w
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> "Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]" <r.bhatia@ipax.at> writes:
>
>> is it possible to add a "git annotate -w" option like git blame has?
>
> Why not use "git blame -c -w"?  `-c' turns on annotate-compatibile
> output.
>
> From git-annotate(1) manpage:
>
>    The only difference between this command and git-blame(1) is that they  use
>    slightly  different  output formats, and this command exists only for back-
>    ward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more familiar
>    command name for people coming from other SCM systems.

Somebody may want to compare git-blame.txt and git-annotate.txt in
Documentation/, notice that they share blame-options.txt and that the
former has accumulated option descriptions for a few more options that
should have been placed in blame-options.txt, and then prepare a patch to
improve the documentation?  Hint, hint...

I *think* '-c', '-f', and '-n' are blame-only options but all others would
work with annotate (whoever is doing the patch needs to verify this,
though).