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Re: Git: new feature suggestion

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jan 20, 2017, 00:26 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> W dniu 19.01.2017 o 19:39, Linus Torvalds pisze:
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>> You can do it in tig, but I suspect a more graphical tool might be better.
>
> Well, we do have "git gui blame".
Does that actually work for people? Because it really doesn't for me.

And I'm not just talking about the aesthetics of the thing, but the whole experience, and the whole "dig into parent" which just gives me an error message.

            Linus
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  4. Konstantin KhomoutovJan 19, 2017
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