Re: Progress report on git-blame

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> So I'm usually just interested in a screenful of lines.  If we could
>> have a version of `C-x v g' that only does "blame" for the current
>> region, for instance, that would certainly fit my use case.
>
> One more thing: "git blame" is of no use when you're trying to see not
> "who wrote these lines when" but "who removed (and when) the lines that
> aren't there any more".

That's what the --reverse option of git blame is for.

> A "git log-and-diff" would handle that case just fine, OTOH.

git log -S "literal string" filename

is also quite helpful (it just outputs the commits where the "literal
string" appears or disappears).

-- 
David Kastrup