# What's with git blame --reverse ? 2 messages from 2014-01-27 to 2014-01-27. Participants: David Kastrup, Duy Nguyen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35740 ## David Kastrup, 2014-01-27 12:45 Subject: What's with git blame --reverse ? Message-ID: <87y5218ufn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87y5218ufn.fsf%40fencepost.gnu.org ``` The git blame manual page talks about using git blame --reverse to figure out when a particular change disappeared, but I cannot make it produce anything useful regardless of what range I give it. Using --root delivers a different state of uselessness. Can anyone give a recipe for using git blame --reverse on the Git code base for figuring out anything of relevance? Since I am in the process of rewriting git-blame, of course I want to verify that everything works, but while I achieve the same results, they seem fabulously useless before and after my rewrite. -- David Kastrup ``` ## Duy Nguyen, 2014-01-27 14:15 Subject: Re: What's with git blame --reverse ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACsJy8CCZxKYW%3DAAz-OsKxrjNo2NyqUQF%3DNJXH20hv4miFUs8g%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <87y5218ufn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> ``` On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:45 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > The git blame manual page talks about using git blame --reverse to > figure out when a particular change disappeared, but I cannot make it > produce anything useful regardless of what range I give it. Using > --root delivers a different state of uselessness. > > Can anyone give a recipe for using git blame --reverse on the Git code > base for figuring out anything of relevance? I rarely use blame, but the commit that introduces --reverse seems to have an example. See 85af792 (git-blame --reverse - 2008-04-02) -- Duy ```