From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:28:54 GMT
Subject: Re: how to track the history of a line in a file
Message-ID: <874p0c1jqx.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
In-Reply-To: <878wpo1k2p.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:48:10AM -0500, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>>> Save the following script in ~/bin/git-rblame.sh, make it executable,
>>> and then create a global git alias for it as follows:
>>> 
>>> $ git config --global alias.rblame '!~/bin/git-rblame.sh $*'
>>
>> Given that you have ~/bin in PATH, just name the script ~/bin/git-rblame
>> and you won't even have to define an alias on each machine. ;-)
>
> Yes but I don't want to use 'git-rblame' as the command since I've
> broken my habit of using the dashed versions of commands. 'git rblame'
> just feels better to me.
>
> Now I probably should have named the script something that won't ever
> clash with possible future git commands (like my-git-rblame.sh or
> something) but since it's in my ~/bin I'll just deal with that if it
> ever happens in the future :)

Oops. That actually does do what I want.  Thanks for pointing that out
Miklos!

(sorry for replying to my own post - next time I'll try it first before
 I post :)

-Bernt