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By adding these commits to the hyper-blame ignore list, <code>git hyper-blame</code> will look past these commits to find the previous commit that touched a given line.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>Follows the normal <code>blame</code> syntax: annotates <code><file></code> with the revision that last modified each line. Optional <code><rev></code> specifies the revision of <code><file></code> to start from.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>Automatically looks for a file called <code>.git-blame-ignore-revs</code> in the repository root directory. This file has the same syntax as the <code>--ignore-file</code> argument, and any commits mentioned in this file are added to the ignore list.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="dlist"><dl> <dt class="hdlist1"> -i <rev> </dt> <dd> <p> A revision to ignore. Can be specified as many times as needed. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --ignore-file=<file> </dt> <dd> <p> A file containing a list of revisions to ignore. Can have comments beginning with <code>#</code>. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> --no-default-ignores </dt> <dd> <p> Do not ignore commits from the <code>.git-blame-ignore-revs</code> file. </p> </dd> </dl></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_example">EXAMPLE</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>Let’s run <code>git blame</code> on a file:</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p></p></div><div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><pre><code><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff">$ git blame ipsum.txt</span> c6eb3bfa (lorem 2014-08-11 23:15:57 +0000 1) LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET, CONSECTETUR 3ddda43c (auto-uppercaser 2014-07-05 02:05:18 +0000 2) ADIPISCING ELIT, SED DO EIUSMOD TEMPOR 3ddda43c (auto-uppercaser 2014-07-05 02:05:18 +0000 3) INCIDIDUNT UT LABORE ET DOLORE MAGNA 3ddda43c (auto-uppercaser 2014-07-05 02:05:18 +0000 4) ALIQUA. UT ENIM AD MINIM VENIAM, QUIS c6eb3bfa (lorem 2014-08-11 23:15:57 +0000 5) NOSTRUD EXERCITATION ULLAMCO LABORIS 3ddda43c (auto-uppercaser 2014-07-05 02:05:18 +0000 6) NISI UT ALIQUIP EX EA COMMODO CONSEQUAT. </code></pre></div></div><p><div class="paragraph"></p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>Notice that almost the entire file has been blamed on a formatting change? You aren’t interested in the uppercasing of the file. You want to know who wrote/modified those lines in the first place. Just tell <code>hyper-blame</code> to ignore that commit:</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p></p></div><div class="listingblock"><div class="content"><pre><code><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff">$ git hyper-blame -i 3ddda43c ipsum.txt</span> c6eb3bfa (lorem 2014-08-11 23:15:57 +0000 1) LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET, CONSECTETUR 134200d1 (lorem 2014-04-10 08:54:46 +0000 2*) ADIPISCING ELIT, SED DO EIUSMOD TEMPOR a34a1d0d (ipsum 2014-04-11 11:25:04 +0000 3*) INCIDIDUNT UT LABORE ET DOLORE MAGNA 134200d1 (lorem 2014-04-10 08:54:46 +0000 4*) ALIQUA. UT ENIM AD MINIM VENIAM, QUIS c6eb3bfa (lorem 2014-08-11 23:15:57 +0000 5) NOSTRUD EXERCITATION ULLAMCO LABORIS 0f0d17bd (dolor 2014-06-02 11:31:48 +0000 6*) NISI UT ALIQUIP EX EA COMMODO CONSEQUAT. </code></pre></div></div><p><div class="paragraph"></p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p><code>hyper-blame</code> places a <code>*</code> next to any line where it has skipped over an ignored commit, so you know that the line in question has been changed (by an ignored commit) since the given person wrote it.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_caveats">CAVEATS</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>When a line skips over an ignored commit, a guess is made as to which commit previously modified that line, but it is not always clear where the line came from. If the ignored commit makes lots of changes in close proximity, in particular adding/removing/reordering lines, then the wrong authors may be blamed for nearby edits.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>For this reason, <code>hyper-blame</code> works best when the ignored commits are be limited to minor changes such as formatting and renaming, not refactoring or other more invasive changes.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-blame.html">git-blame(1)</a></p></div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_chromium_depot_tools">CHROMIUM DEPOT_TOOLS</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the chromium <a href="depot_tools.html">depot_tools(7)</a> suite. These tools are meant to assist with the development of chromium and related projects. Download the tools from <a href="https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git">here</a>.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footnotes"><hr /></div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> Last updated 2016-12-15 15:36:52 PST </div> </div> </body> </html>