Blaming (annotate)

The high-level function of git blame is the display of author metadata attached to specific committed lines in a file. This is used to examine specific points of a file's history and get context as to who the last author was that modified the line. This is used to explore the history of specific code and answer questions about what, how, and why the code was added to a repository.

$ git blame file 566a0863 (Alex Blewitt 2011-07-12 09:43:39 +0100 1) First line ed0a7c55 (Alex Blewitt 2011-07-12 09:43:51 +0100 2) Second line 8372b725 (Alex Blewitt 2011-07-12 09:44:06 +0100 3) Third line ed0a7c55 (Alex Blewitt 2011-07-12 09:43:51 +0100 4)