Using the git-blame Command

• Print a file with authorship info (author name and commit hash):

git blame *path/to/file*

• Print the author’s email instead of their name:

git blame *[-e|--show-email]* *path/to/file*

• Print a file with authorship info as of a specific commit:

git blame *commit* *path/to/file*

• Print a file with authorship info before a specific commit:

git blame *commit*~ *path/to/file*

• Print a file with authorship info starting at a given line:

git blame -L *123* *path/to/file*

• Annotate a specific line range of a file:

git blame -L *start_line*,*end_line* *path/to/file*

• Annotate 10 lines of a file starting at the first line matching a given text:

git blame -L '/*text*/',+10 *path/to/file*

• Annotate a file ignoring whitespaces and line moves:

git blame -w -C -C -C *path/to/file*

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