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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-gui blame: show previous commit
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:53:00 +0200
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Florian Weimer wrote:

> How can I view the previous commit touching a specific line, so that I
> can see what was there before?  For instance, the change could be
> whitespace-only, so that I want to dig deeper.

You can always use "git blame -L<lineno>,+1 <revision> -- <file>". Or use
pickaxe search, i.e. "git log -S'<fragment>' <revision> -- <file>".

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Jakub Narebski
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