SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-blame' [-c] [-l] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-p] [-S <revs-file>] [--] <file> [<rev>]
+[verse]
+'git-blame' [-c] [-l] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-p] [-L n,m] [-S <revs-file>]
+ [-M] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] [<rev>] [--] <file>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which
last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision.
+Also it can limit the range of lines annotated.
+
This report doesn't tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or
replaced; you need to use a tool such as gitlink:git-diff[1] or the "pickaxe"
interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph.
Apart from supporting file annotation, git also supports searching the
-development history for when a code snippet occured in a change. This makes it
+development history for when a code snippet occurred in a change. This makes it
possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied
between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. It works by searching for
a text string in the diff. A small example:
-c, --compatibility::
Use the same output mode as gitlink:git-annotate[1] (Default: off).
+-L n,m::
+ Annotate only the specified line range (lines count from 1).
+
-l, --long::
Show long rev (Default: off).
-p, --porcelain::
Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
+-M::
+ Detect moving lines in the file as well. When a commit
+ moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file
+ has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and
+ then A), traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames
+ the lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and
+ assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A)
+ to the child commit. With this option, both groups of
+ lines are blamed on the parent.
+
+-C::
+ In addition to `-M`, detect lines copied from other
+ files that were modified in the same commit. This is
+ useful when you reorganize your program and move code
+ around across files. When this option is given twice,
+ the command looks for copies from all other files in the
+ parent for the commit that creates the file in addition.
+
-h, --help::
Show help message.
--------------------
In this format, each line is output after a header; the
-header at the minumum has the first line which has:
+header at the minimum has the first line which has:
- 40-byte SHA-1 of the commit the line is attributed to;
- the line number of the line in the original file;
header, prefixed by a TAB. This is to allow adding more
header elements later.
+
+SPECIFYING RANGES
+-----------------
+
+Unlike `git-blame` and `git-annotate` in older git, the extent
+of annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision
+ranges. When you are interested in finding the origin for
+ll. 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use `-L` option like these
+(they mean the same thing -- both ask for 21 lines starting at
+line 40):
+
+ git blame -L 40,60 foo
+ git blame -L 40,+21 foo
+
+Also you can use regular expression to specify the line range.
+
+ git blame -L '/^sub hello {/,/^}$/' foo
+
+would limit the annotation to the body of `hello` subroutine.
+
+When you are not interested in changes older than the version
+v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision
+range specifiers similar to `git-rev-list`:
+
+ git blame v2.6.18.. -- foo
+ git blame --since=3.weeks -- foo
+
+When revision range specifiers are used to limit the annotation,
+lines that have not changed since the range boundary (either the
+commit v2.6.18 or the most recent commit that is more than 3
+weeks old in the above example) are blamed for that range
+boundary commit.
+
+A particularly useful way is to see if an added file have lines
+created by copy-and-paste from existing files. Sometimes this
+indicates that the developer was being sloppy and did not
+refactor the code properly. You can first find the commit that
+introduced the file with:
+
+ git log --diff-filter=A --pretty=short -- foo
+
+and then annotate the change between the commit and its
+parents, using `commit{caret}!` notation:
+
+ git blame -C -C -f $commit^! -- foo
+
+
SEE ALSO
--------
gitlink:git-annotate[1]
AUTHOR
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-Written by Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>.
+Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
GIT
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