# Feature suggestion: git grep --blame

2 messages from 2009-06-20 to 2009-06-20. Participants: David Christensen, René Scharfe.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19876

## David Christensen, 2009-06-20 15:29

Subject: Feature suggestion: git grep --blame
Message-ID: <B13F8D3F-E69B-49BA-9B81-27DF19E33A43@endpoint.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/B13F8D3F-E69B-49BA-9B81-27DF19E33A43%40endpoint.com

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Hey folks,

It's occurred to me on several occasions that a useful output option  
for `git grep` would be to prefix lines with the same commit/author/ 
date annotation that `git blame` shows when viewing an individual  
file.  I didn't find anything myself with a quick google search so I  
was wondering if anyone a) has a recipe for this either with a trivial  
command alias (I couldn't come up with one myself), b) know if this  
has been done/attempted before, or c) have a reason why this is a  
really stupid idea? :-)

Regards,

David
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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
david@endpoint.com

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## René Scharfe, 2009-06-20 18:19

Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: git grep --blame
Message-ID: <4A3D281E.4070500@lsrfire.ath.cx>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A3D281E.4070500%40lsrfire.ath.cx
In-Reply-To: <B13F8D3F-E69B-49BA-9B81-27DF19E33A43@endpoint.com>

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David Christensen schrieb:
> Hey folks,
> 
> It's occurred to me on several occasions that a useful output option for
> `git grep` would be to prefix lines with the same commit/author/date
> annotation that `git blame` shows when viewing an individual file.  I
> didn't find anything myself with a quick google search so I was
> wondering if anyone a) has a recipe for this either with a trivial
> command alias (I couldn't come up with one myself), b) know if this has
> been done/attempted before, or c) have a reason why this is a really
> stupid idea? :-)

This is a very good idea -- so good, in fact, that Pi Song sent patches
to implement it a quarter ago.  There were a few issues which prevented
them from being merged unchanged.  Junio merged an initial cleanup patch
into pu instead ("blame.c: start libifying the blame infrastructure",
97926c6c).  Work on the remaining parts seems to have stalled, though.
Pi Song?

René

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