On 08/05/14 18:54, Jianyu Zhan wrote: > Usually, a trivial change(like coding style fix) may bury a > original change of the code, and thus git blame is of less > help. And to address this situation, I have to do like this: > > git blame -s REF^ <file-in-question> > temp > > to dig into the history recursively by hand, to find out > the original change. > > Here, REF is commit-id that git blame reports. > > git log -L is a good alternative option, but sometimes it seems > too cubersome, as I care only one line of code. > > Is there any current solution or suggestion? > I use "git gui blame" for this all the time at $dayjob. If there aren't too many of these code clean ups then the eclipse git integration is also handy for this but it will suffer from the same issues as git blame. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html