Re: More precise tag following

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 27, 2007, 18:52 UTC
Message-ID: <epg6vk$van$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701270837170.25027@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> - teach people about alternatives.

Actually, "git log -p -S'<string>'" is usually much better alternative to blame / annotate to find who introduced given change and what for; moreover you can find the <string> which vanished (find also deleted contents).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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