On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:50:57PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote: > Thanks Jeff and Bryan! However, I am curious that if there were a way > to tell git blame to skip a commit (the one which added the file again > and maybe the one which deleted it originally) while it walks back > through history, then it should just get back the > entire history right ?
Not easily. ;) You can feed a set of revisions to git-blame with the "-S" option, but I don't offhand know how it handles diffs (I think it would have to still diff each commit against its parent, since history is non-linear, and a list is inherently linear). You might want to experiment with that. Other than that, you can play with git-replace to produce a fake history, as if the deletion never happened. But note that will affect all commands, not just one particular blame. It might be a neat way to play with blame, but I doubt I'd leave the replacement in place in the long term. -Peff
