"Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What's the difference between 'git blame' & 'git annotate'? The > output is practically identical - it's not obvious when you would use > one over the other Long, long time ago (which in git terms mean almost 2 years ago: git-annotate.perl was removed on Oct 9, 2006) there were two competing implementations: git-annotate, which IIRC was first (starting at Feb 20, 2006) and was written in Perl, and git-blame (stated at Feb 21, 2006) which was written in C. In long term git-blame won, if I remember correctly because it avoided some strange corner case, and assigned blame better. Then git-annotate was made alias to "git-blame -c", perhaps in additon to different synopsis (order of arguments and possible options), for backward compatibility. HTH. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
