Re: Feature suggestion: git grep --blame

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