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I mean, it just tells you the commit that last changed a line...

it's not that simple. git is a snapshot, i.e. it saves an entire file. How to recover changed lines from it efficiently? And How to do it for the entire history?

Basically, I want to understand this code

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/blame.c

I'm so confused on what you're saying. Are you saying it _isn't_ what commit last occurred on the given line?

How would you explain this UI? https://github.com/git/git/blame/master/blame.c

Ie, what does blame mean to you?

I was replying to another comment that has since been deleted. It said something roughly along the lines of git blame being a contentious and passive aggressive command.

I totally agree the technical implementation would be cool to study :)

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Ah I see it now, thanks for the heads up!

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