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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> - teach people about alternatives.

Actually, "git log -p -S'<string>'" is usually much better alternative
to blame / annotate to find who introduced given change and what for;
moreover you can find the <string> which vanished (find also deleted
contents).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git