From: Thomas Rast Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:41:13 GMT Subject: Re: Is there something like a blamed diff? Message-ID: <87ppmltz5y.fsf@thomasrast.ch> In-Reply-To: <8761oeuhmg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> David Kastrup writes: > Thomas Rast writes: > >> David Kastrup writes: >> >>> When comparing two branches, decorating the flat diff with the >>> respectively responsible commits seems like it would be nice to do/have >>> (the blame on the identical parts, in contrast, is not really >>> interesting). Is there any tool that provides something like that? >> >> This seems to come up every year or so: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110369/focus=110383 > > Nice. That one could likely be sped up by calling git-blame just once > on each file with multiple -L options. Yes. You'll note that the email predates the support for multiple -L options by a few years :-) I never had a need for such a script, I just wrote that in response to someone asking about it. If you find it useful, please clean it up for inclusion in contrib/. -- Thomas Rast tr@thomasrast.ch