Re: blame vs annotate?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 3, 2008, 18:11 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <57518fd10809030943i35af222fw82cf591c737b8c04@mail.gmail.com>

"Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com> writes:

> What's the difference between 'git blame' & 'git annotate'?  The
> output is practically identical - it's not obvious when you would use
> one over the other

Long, long time ago (which in git terms mean almost 2 years ago:
git-annotate.perl was removed on Oct 9, 2006) there were two competing
implementations: git-annotate, which IIRC was first (starting at Feb
20, 2006) and was written in Perl, and git-blame (stated at Feb 21,
2006) which was written in C.  In long term git-blame won, if I
remember correctly because it avoided some strange corner case, and
assigned blame better.  Then git-annotate was made alias to "git-blame
-c", perhaps in additon to different synopsis (order of arguments and
possible options), for backward compatibility.

HTH.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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