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Re: Documentation for git gui blame

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2010, 19:50 UTC
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Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 12/10/10 09:12, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> >  Is there any documentation for git gui blame 
> 
> Not sure but it's displaying the same info as git blame so start with
> man git-blame. That probably covers most of what you want to know
> 
> > that explains what the two left columns containing 4 letter SHAs are?
> 
> These are the first 4 characters of the commit id that last
> added/changed that line of code.

Note that there are *two* columns because one column contains plain blame, and second contains blame with code movement and copying detection and discarding changes in whitespace (like "git blame -C -C -w"). So if those columns are different, one column would show commit that put code here, and the other would show commit that changed this code.

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  1. Joshua JensenOct 12, 2010
  2. Chris PackhamOct 12, 2010
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 12, 2010
  4. Chris PackhamOct 12, 2010
  5. Joshua JensenOct 13, 2010

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