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1 | git-blame(1) |
2 | ============ | |
3 | ||
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
26e8c5d3 | 6 | git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file |
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7 | |
8 | SYNOPSIS | |
9 | -------- | |
acca687f | 10 | [verse] |
1b8cdce9 | 11 | 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m] |
88d50e78 | 12 | [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] |
b452cc16 | 13 | [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> |
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14 | |
15 | DESCRIPTION | |
16 | ----------- | |
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17 | |
18 | Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which | |
19 | last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision. | |
20 | ||
b89510f0 | 21 | The command can also limit the range of lines annotated. |
acca687f | 22 | |
b89510f0 | 23 | The report does not tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or |
0b444cdb | 24 | replaced; you need to use a tool such as 'git diff' or the "pickaxe" |
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25 | interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph. |
26 | ||
27 | Apart from supporting file annotation, git also supports searching the | |
23bfbb81 | 28 | development history for when a code snippet occurred in a change. This makes it |
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29 | possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied |
30 | between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. It works by searching for | |
31 | a text string in the diff. A small example: | |
32 | ||
33 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
34 | $ git log --pretty=oneline -S'blame_usage' | |
35 | 5040f17eba15504bad66b14a645bddd9b015ebb7 blame -S <ancestry-file> | |
36 | ea4c7f9bf69e781dd0cd88d2bccb2bf5cc15c9a7 git-blame: Make the output | |
37 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
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38 | |
39 | OPTIONS | |
40 | ------- | |
635f4a30 | 41 | include::blame-options.txt[] |
b19ee24b | 42 | |
635f4a30 | 43 | -c:: |
5162e697 | 44 | Use the same output mode as linkgit:git-annotate[1] (Default: off). |
8f2b72a9 | 45 | |
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46 | --score-debug:: |
47 | Include debugging information related to the movement of | |
48 | lines between files (see `-C`) and lines moved within a | |
49 | file (see `-M`). The first number listed is the score. | |
50 | This is the number of alphanumeric characters detected | |
b89510f0 | 51 | as having been moved between or within files. This must be above |
0b444cdb | 52 | a certain threshold for 'git blame' to consider those lines |
635f4a30 | 53 | of code to have been moved. |
8f2b72a9 | 54 | |
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55 | -f:: |
56 | --show-name:: | |
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57 | Show the filename in the original commit. By default |
58 | the filename is shown if there is any line that came from a | |
59 | file with a different name, due to rename detection. | |
b24642b2 | 60 | |
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61 | -n:: |
62 | --show-number:: | |
b89510f0 | 63 | Show the line number in the original commit (Default: off). |
b24642b2 | 64 | |
093dc5be | 65 | -s:: |
b89510f0 | 66 | Suppress the author name and timestamp from the output. |
093dc5be | 67 | |
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68 | -e:: |
69 | --show-email:: | |
70 | Show the author email instead of author name (Default: off). | |
71 | ||
b82871b3 | 72 | -w:: |
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73 | Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and |
74 | the child's to find where the lines came from. | |
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75 | |
76 | ||
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77 | THE PORCELAIN FORMAT |
78 | -------------------- | |
79 | ||
80 | In this format, each line is output after a header; the | |
23bfbb81 | 81 | header at the minimum has the first line which has: |
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82 | |
83 | - 40-byte SHA-1 of the commit the line is attributed to; | |
84 | - the line number of the line in the original file; | |
85 | - the line number of the line in the final file; | |
b89510f0 | 86 | - on a line that starts a group of lines from a different |
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87 | commit than the previous one, the number of lines in this |
88 | group. On subsequent lines this field is absent. | |
89 | ||
90 | This header line is followed by the following information | |
91 | at least once for each commit: | |
92 | ||
b89510f0 | 93 | - the author name ("author"), email ("author-mail"), time |
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94 | ("author-time"), and timezone ("author-tz"); similarly |
95 | for committer. | |
b89510f0 | 96 | - the filename in the commit that the line is attributed to. |
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97 | - the first line of the commit log message ("summary"). |
98 | ||
99 | The contents of the actual line is output after the above | |
100 | header, prefixed by a TAB. This is to allow adding more | |
101 | header elements later. | |
102 | ||
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104 | SPECIFYING RANGES |
105 | ----------------- | |
acca687f | 106 | |
0b444cdb | 107 | Unlike 'git blame' and 'git annotate' in older versions of git, the extent |
b89510f0 | 108 | of the annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision |
acca687f | 109 | ranges. When you are interested in finding the origin for |
b89510f0 | 110 | lines 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use the `-L` option like so |
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111 | (they mean the same thing -- both ask for 21 lines starting at |
112 | line 40): | |
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113 | |
114 | git blame -L 40,60 foo | |
42f62db9 | 115 | git blame -L 40,+21 foo |
acca687f | 116 | |
b89510f0 | 117 | Also you can use a regular expression to specify the line range: |
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118 | |
119 | git blame -L '/^sub hello {/,/^}$/' foo | |
120 | ||
b89510f0 | 121 | which limits the annotation to the body of the `hello` subroutine. |
18d5453e | 122 | |
b89510f0 | 123 | When you are not interested in changes older than version |
acca687f | 124 | v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision |
0b444cdb | 125 | range specifiers similar to 'git rev-list': |
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126 | |
127 | git blame v2.6.18.. -- foo | |
128 | git blame --since=3.weeks -- foo | |
129 | ||
130 | When revision range specifiers are used to limit the annotation, | |
131 | lines that have not changed since the range boundary (either the | |
132 | commit v2.6.18 or the most recent commit that is more than 3 | |
133 | weeks old in the above example) are blamed for that range | |
134 | boundary commit. | |
135 | ||
b89510f0 | 136 | A particularly useful way is to see if an added file has lines |
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137 | created by copy-and-paste from existing files. Sometimes this |
138 | indicates that the developer was being sloppy and did not | |
139 | refactor the code properly. You can first find the commit that | |
140 | introduced the file with: | |
141 | ||
142 | git log --diff-filter=A --pretty=short -- foo | |
143 | ||
144 | and then annotate the change between the commit and its | |
145 | parents, using `commit{caret}!` notation: | |
146 | ||
147 | git blame -C -C -f $commit^! -- foo | |
148 | ||
149 | ||
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150 | INCREMENTAL OUTPUT |
151 | ------------------ | |
152 | ||
153 | When called with `--incremental` option, the command outputs the | |
154 | result as it is built. The output generally will talk about | |
155 | lines touched by more recent commits first (i.e. the lines will | |
156 | be annotated out of order) and is meant to be used by | |
157 | interactive viewers. | |
158 | ||
159 | The output format is similar to the Porcelain format, but it | |
160 | does not contain the actual lines from the file that is being | |
161 | annotated. | |
162 | ||
163 | . Each blame entry always starts with a line of: | |
164 | ||
165 | <40-byte hex sha1> <sourceline> <resultline> <num_lines> | |
166 | + | |
167 | Line numbers count from 1. | |
168 | ||
b89510f0 | 169 | . The first time that a commit shows up in the stream, it has various |
57e7a0a4 | 170 | other information about it printed out with a one-word tag at the |
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171 | beginning of each line describing the extra commit information (author, |
172 | email, committer, dates, summary, etc.). | |
57e7a0a4 | 173 | |
b89510f0 | 174 | . Unlike the Porcelain format, the filename information is always |
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175 | given and terminates the entry: |
176 | ||
177 | "filename" <whitespace-quoted-filename-goes-here> | |
178 | + | |
b89510f0 | 179 | and thus it is really quite easy to parse for some line- and word-oriented |
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180 | parser (which should be quite natural for most scripting languages). |
181 | + | |
182 | [NOTE] | |
183 | For people who do parsing: to make it more robust, just ignore any | |
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184 | lines between the first and last one ("<sha1>" and "filename" lines) |
185 | where you do not recognize the tag words (or care about that particular | |
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186 | one) at the beginning of the "extended information" lines. That way, if |
187 | there is ever added information (like the commit encoding or extended | |
b89510f0 | 188 | commit commentary), a blame viewer will not care. |
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189 | |
190 | ||
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191 | MAPPING AUTHORS |
192 | --------------- | |
193 | ||
194 | include::mailmap.txt[] | |
195 | ||
196 | ||
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197 | SEE ALSO |
198 | -------- | |
5162e697 | 199 | linkgit:git-annotate[1] |
8f2b72a9 | 200 | |
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201 | GIT |
202 | --- | |
9e1f0a85 | 203 | Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |