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Comment by smoyer | Hacker News Reader

"By me." - I've been there many times!

I hate that SCM systems commonly describe who made changes as "blame" (couldn't it be "praise" for when you want to find out who wrote exceptional code?) and yet it's wonderful to be able to look back into history and see "who" was responsible for a block of code. It can be a real learning experience!

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'svn praise' is an alias for 'svn blame' (or the other way round). The more neutral wording is usually 'annotate'. To be honest, I have rarely used these commands to check who had written such a beautiful code...

Someone once said that the only real measure of code quality was the number of WTFs/minute emitted while reading it:

http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m

Might be from Joel Spolsky/Bill Gates:

"...a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f*-count, the better."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

bazaar uses the blame/praise/annotate trio as well.

It's only blame because on the 90th time you've found a rotting turd in your 1mloc enterprise codebase that nearly shot the company properly, you really do want to blame it on that budget outsourcing outfit or the HR member who recruited that junior dev without even vetting them :)

(this is what I unfortunately sit right in the middle of)

You know many sites these days have various badges that you earn. I propose the addition of a badge that you admit to---the 'By Me' badge...

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