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Related Blame Tools

Perforce Time Lapse View

This GUI is bundled with the P4V client for Perforce SCM

Blame View

  • Shows when hunks are last and next modified
  • By default stays within the current branch but can follow back to previous branches
  • Colors hunk by age
  • Visualizer for how long hunks have existed in file

Incremental Diff View

  • Shows something like git diff HEAD~..HEAD but can slide backwards

Diff View

  • Shows diff between two specified commits with slides for each commit

See

git blame

A CLI for showing a file with line numbers and annotations for when a change was introduced

  • Supports ignoring specific revisions via blame.ignoreRevsFile
  • To investigate the commit, requires dropping out and doing git show <sha>
  • If the commit isn't of interest, requires running git blame <sha>~ <path> which will fail if the file had moved

git "pickaxe"

A CLI that shows when a change was introduced or remove so long as your search is correct

See

DeepGit

A blame GUI that let's you click through to look further back then a commit.

Includes heuristics for detecting moves of code, showing level of confidence.

See DeepGit

Git Tower

A git GUI that includes git blame support

Let's you click to get info about a commit but doesn't seem to have any other investigation features.

See Git Tower: Blame Window

CLion

An IDE that includes a GUI for git blame

  • Colors commits differently
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Click on commit to see git show and to jump to the commit
  • Can jump to a previous revision
  • Can hide revisions
    • A GUI hint that this happens
    • Can be turned on/off

See CLion: "Locate Code Author"

Tig

A git TUI that includes a git blame view

No details on website to see how powerful it is

See Tig

git spelunk

A TUI for showing a file with line numbers and annotations for when a change was introduced

  • When a hunk is selected, it highlights all related hunks
  • [ and ] to move through history
  • Has a git show pane
  • less-like searching through the file

See git spelunk

git word-blame

A tool to show the commit for each word

See git word-blame