1git-annotate(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git annotate' [options] file [revision] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit 16which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision. 17 18The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that 19they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only 20for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more 21familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25include::blame-options.txt[] 26 27SEE ALSO 28-------- 29linkgit:git-blame[1] 30 31GIT 32--- 33Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite