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Re: Why is AuthorDate displayed on git-blame?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2020, 18:17 UTC
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"Raymond E. Pasco" <ray@ameretat.dev> writes:
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> Perhaps the following
> adaptation:
>
> --first-parent::
> 	Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge
> 	commit. This option can be used to determine when a line
> 	was introduced to a particular integration branch, rather
> 	than when it was introduced to the history overall.

Yup. We somehow forgot to document it when we did 95a4fb0e (blame: handle --first-parent, 2015-09-15). The text reads well.

Care to make it into a patch?
Thanks.
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  1. נעם סולוביצ'יקAug 5, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2020
  3. Raymond E. PascoAug 6, 2020
  4. Noam SoloveichikAug 6, 2020
  5. Raymond E. PascoAug 6, 2020
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2020
  7. blame-options.txt: document --first-parent optionRaymond E. Pasco, Aug 6, 2020
  8. Jeff KingAug 8, 2020
  9. brian m. carlsonAug 5, 2020
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2020

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