Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > Curious. Isn't it exactly the same what git-blame(1) does though? Taken > the textual representation of a tree object, we figure out when each of > the lines has last been changed. That to me sounds like exactly the same > thing as git-blame(1), but just for trees instead of for blobs. That's mechanical worldview from the viewpoint of those who know the internal representation and workings of Git, I would have to say. As an end-user, I view "where does the body of this function came from" and "when did I touch this file the last time" quite different and unrelated kind of queries.
