From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:15:47 GMT
Subject: Re: What's with git blame --reverse ?
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CCZxKYW=AAz-OsKxrjNo2NyqUQF=NJXH20hv4miFUs8g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87y5218ufn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:45 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> The git blame manual page talks about using git blame --reverse to
> figure out when a particular change disappeared, but I cannot make it
> produce anything useful regardless of what range I give it.  Using
> --root delivers a different state of uselessness.
>
> Can anyone give a recipe for using git blame --reverse on the Git code
> base for figuring out anything of relevance?

I rarely use blame, but the commit that introduces --reverse seems to
have an example. See 85af792 (git-blame --reverse - 2008-04-02)
-- 
Duy