Why is AuthorDate displayed on git-blame?

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Hey everybody, I wonder about the decision behind git-blame and
git-annotate date that is being shown.

If I understand correctly, the AuthorDate is displayed, and I'd like
to challenge that decision. Consider the following case:

A feature branch having commits authored last week, but merged to the
main branch just today. And to the sake of discussion, let's say that
the branch has a bug.

When someone encounters the bug on the main branch, he would probably
want to know when it was introduced - the date when the bug started
to affect him. However, git-blame only shows him when the bug was
originally authored, in our case - *last-week*, which is confusing
since the main branch was working just fine back then.

So I wonder why was AuthorDate the date chosen to be displayed under
git-blame?



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