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Is it possible to see who edited a specific line before the commit reported by git blame, like a history of commits for a given line?
For example, I run the following (on the superb uncrustify project):
$ git blame -L10,+1 src/options.cpp ^fe25b6d (Ben Gardner 2009-10-17 13:13:55 -0500 10) #include "prototypes.h" How can I find out who edited that line before commit fe25b6d? And who edited it before that commit?
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The git blame command is used to know who/which commit is responsible for the latest changes made to a file. The author/commit of each line can also been seen.
In case you don't know git-blameIf you want to know who last changed a particular chunk of code, you use Git to run a special command. That command is called blame. In other words, you don't ask who the author is, you ask who's to blame for a particular contribution.
The git blame command is used to examine the contents of a file line by line and see when each line was last modified and who the author of the modifications was. The output format of git blame can be altered with various command line options.
On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. Click to open the file whose line history you want to view. In the upper-right corner of the file view, click Blame to open the blame view.
git blame -L 10,+1 fe25b6d^ -- src/options.cpp You can specify a revision for git blame to look back starting from (instead of the default of HEAD); fe25b6d^ is the parent of fe25b6d.
Edit: New to Git 2.23, we have the --ignore-rev option added to git blame:
git blame --ignore-rev fe25b6d While this doesn't answer OP's question of giving the stack of commits (you'll use git log for that, as per the other answer), it is a better way of this solution, as you won't potentially misblame the other lines.
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