From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Baumann Subject: Re: In-depth git blame? Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:50:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20110302215020.GD24660@m62s10.vlinux.de> References: <20110302211545.GD20400@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110302212951.GB24660@m62s10.vlinux.de> <20110302213437.GG20400@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110302214445.GC24660@m62s10.vlinux.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jez , Thomas Rast , Bo Yang , Jonas Fonseca , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 02 22:50:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PutwJ-0000Fh-6z for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:50:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757606Ab1CBVua (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:50:30 -0500 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:51277 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757509Ab1CBVu3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:50:29 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Mar 2011 21:50:26 -0000 Received: from m62s10.vlinux.de (EHLO m62s10.vlinux.de) [83.151.21.204] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 02 Mar 2011 22:50:26 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1252284 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18zqt5packzVkigUOpg94kyibTfRnaqPPA1tCyCTK 7NbGO6iwEvZen1 Received: by m62s10.vlinux.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C673D401F; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:50:20 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110302214445.GC24660@m62s10.vlinux.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:44:45PM +0100, Peter Baumann wrote: > [ Cc Jonas, because he might know more about that ] > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:34:37PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:29:51PM +0100, Peter Baumann wrote: > > > > > > If you use "git gui blame" or "tig blame", both have a "blame from > > > > parent commit" feature. This restarts the blame using the content as > > > > it was just before the answer you just got, so you can recursively > > > > dig. It's unfortunately a somewhat manual process. > > > > > > > > > > Hm. I guess pressing 'B' will blame the parent commit in tig. But I > > > can't figure out how to navigate back to the old commit (before > > > pressing 'B')? Any hints appreciated! > > > > No, it is "," (comma) from the blame viewer in tig to blame starting > > from the parent of the blamed commit of the highlighted line. > > > Thx, I didn't know that. Your help is really appreciated! > > > Doing "B" will just re-blame starting at that commit, which will of > > course give you the same answer (I think it is a global "go to blame > > view", so it is more useful when you are _not_ in the blame viewer > > already). > > > > And if you are confused at any point, "h" should give you a > > context-sensitive list of keystrokes. > > > Hm. I did look at the 'h'elp, but it wasn't mentioned there, at least > not in my version (tig version 0.16-9-g7630a8f) here. > Ok. I take it back. I was blind not having it seen in the help. Searching for ',' did make me see it :-) -Peter