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NAME

       git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information

SYNOPSIS

       git annotate [options] file [revision]

DESCRIPTION

       Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given
       revision.

       The only difference between this command and git-blame(1) is that they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only
       for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems.

OPTIONS

       -b
	   Show blank SHA-1 for boundary commits. This can also be controlled via the blame.blankboundary config option.

       --root
	   Do not treat root commits as boundaries. This can also be controlled via the blame.showroot config option.

       --show-stats
	   Include additional statistics at the end of blame output.

       -L <start>,<end>
	   Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

	   o   number

	       If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an absolute line number (lines count from 1).

	   o   /regex/

	       This form will use the first line matching the given POSIX regex. If <end> is a regex, it will search starting at the line given by
	       <start>.

	   o   +offset or -offset

	       This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number of lines before or after the line given by <start>.

       -l
	   Show long rev (Default: off).

       -t
	   Show raw timestamp (Default: off).

       -S <revs-file>
	   Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling git-rev-list(1).

       --reverse
	   Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last revision in
	   which a line has existed. This requires a range of revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in START.

       -p, --porcelain
	   Show in a format designed for machine consumption.

       --incremental
	   Show the result incrementally in a format designed for machine consumption.

       --encoding=<encoding>
	   Specifies the encoding used to output author names and commit summaries. Setting it to none makes blame output unconverted data. For
	   more information see the discussion about encoding in the git-log(1) manual page.

       --contents <file>
	   When <rev> is not specified, the command annotates the changes starting backwards from the working tree copy. This flag makes the
	   command pretend as if the working tree copy has the contents of the named file (specify - to make the command read from the standard
	   input).

       --date <format>
	   The value is one of the following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}. If --date is not provided, the value of the
	   blame.date config variable is used. If the blame.date config variable is also not set, the iso format is used. For more information,
	   See the discussion of the --date option at git-log(1).

       -M|<num>|
	   Detect moved or copied lines within a file. When a commit moves or copies a block of lines (e.g. the original file has A and then B,
	   and the commit changes it to B and then A), the traditional blame algorithm notices only half of the movement and typically blames the
	   lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A) to the child commit. With
	   this option, both groups of lines are blamed on the parent by running extra passes of inspection.

	   <num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving within a file for
	   it to associate those lines with the parent commit.

       -C|<num>|
	   In addition to -M, detect lines moved or copied from other files that were modified in the same commit. This is useful when you
	   reorganize your program and move code around across files. When this option is given twice, the command additionally looks for copies
	   from other files in the commit that creates the file. When this option is given three times, the command additionally looks for copies
	   from other files in any commit.

	   <num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving between files for
	   it to associate those lines with the parent commit.

       -h, --help
	   Show help message.

SEE ALSO

       git-blame(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com[1]>.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

	1. ryan@michonline.com
	   mailto:ryan@michonline.com

Git 1.7.1							    07/05/2010							   GIT-ANNOTATE(1)