Hey folks,
It's occurred to me on several occasions that a useful output option
for `git grep` would be to prefix lines with the same commit/author/
date annotation that `git blame` shows when viewing an individual
file. I didn't find anything myself with a quick google search so I
was wondering if anyone a) has a recipe for this either with a trivial
command alias (I couldn't come up with one myself), b) know if this
has been done/attempted before, or c) have a reason why this is a
really stupid idea? :-)
Regards,
David
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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
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David Christensen schrieb:
Hey folks,
It's occurred to me on several occasions that a useful output option for
`git grep` would be to prefix lines with the same commit/author/date
annotation that `git blame` shows when viewing an individual file. I
didn't find anything myself with a quick google search so I was
wondering if anyone a) has a recipe for this either with a trivial
command alias (I couldn't come up with one myself), b) know if this has
been done/attempted before, or c) have a reason why this is a really
stupid idea? :-)
This is a very good idea -- so good, in fact, that Pi Song sent patches
to implement it a quarter ago. There were a few issues which prevented
them from being merged unchanged. Junio merged an initial cleanup patch
into pu instead ("blame.c: start libifying the blame infrastructure",
97926c6c). Work on the remaining parts seems to have stalled, though.
Pi Song?
René