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Feature suggestion: git grep --blame

From
David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>
Date
Jun 20, 2009, 15:29 UTC
Message-ID
<B13F8D3F-E69B-49BA-9B81-27DF19E33A43@endpoint.com>
Hey folks,

It's occurred to me on several occasions that a useful output option for `git grep` would be to prefix lines with the same commit/author/ date annotation that `git blame` shows when viewing an individual file. I didn't find anything myself with a quick google search so I was wondering if anyone a) has a recipe for this either with a trivial command alias (I couldn't come up with one myself), b) know if this has been done/attempted before, or c) have a reason why this is a really stupid idea? :-)

Regards,

David -- David Christensen End Point Corporation david@endpoint.com

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