Re: [PATCH (GITK,GIT-GUI,DOCS) 2/7] gitk: Support calling git gui blame from gitk.

Paul Mackerras schrieb:

Alexander Gavrilov writes:

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Add a new item to the file list popup menu, that
calls git gui blame for the selected file, starting
with the first parent of the current commit.

Also applied, also with some edits to the description.

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+    $flist_menu add command -label [mc "Blame parent commit"] \
+        -command {external_blame 1}

Why the parent commit rather than the current commit?

For the lines that the current commit *adds*, you know who is to blame
(the current commit). Once you know that, you are usually interested in
who is to blame for the lines that the current commit *removed*. To get
this information, you must "Blame the parent commit".

-- Hannes