Git Blame-Someone-Else

#1

Post by MrGagi » Sat, Jun 03, 2023, 8:29 PM UTC

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#2

Post by nasretdinov » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 8:13 AM UTC

The only downside of this script is that it changes commit hashes, so you actually can only blame someone else if you force-push or just showing blame on your computer. It would be nice if it could be done without changing the commit SHAs.

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#3

Post by ditsuke » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 9:43 AM UTC

nasretdinov wrote: post #2

The only downside of this script is that it changes commit hashes, so you actually can only blame someone else if you force-push or just showing blame on your computer. It would be nice if it could be done without changing the commit SHAs.

That could've been possible if Git didn't use commit metadata hashes, (un)fortunately it's smart enough to do that.

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#4

Post by proto_lambda » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:16 AM UTC

nasretdinov wrote: post #2

The only downside of this script is that it changes commit hashes, so you actually can only blame someone else if you force-push or just showing blame on your computer. It would be nice if it could be done without changing the commit SHAs.

The whole point of commit hashes is that you can't do that, so no, being able to change history undetected would not be nice at all.

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#5

Post by MrGagi » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:19 AM UTC

But funny enough is that there is a commit where it pretends to be Linus https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else/commit/e...

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#6

Post by aae42 » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:37 AM UTC

This is why I sign my commits... It's also easy these days to do it with an SSH key

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#7

Post by aflag » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:37 AM UTC

Initially I thought it would show all changes to a file that were made by someone other than the person running the command. So, for instance, if there's a line I changed recently, it would go down history further to find the original author.

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#8

Post by Tyr42 » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:40 AM UTC

aflag wrote: post #7

Initially I thought it would show all changes to a file that were made by someone other than the person running the command. So, for instance, if there's a line I changed recently, it would go down history further to find the original author.

That's what I was looking for too. Would be useful.

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#9

Post by saagarjha » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:49 AM UTC

It's actually a pretty convenient script to use locally when doing repository manipulation, for example when you're cherry-picking other people's commit via patch and want to attribute it to them.

Re: Git Blame-Someone-Else

#10

Post by ahrzb » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 11:00 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #9

It's actually a pretty convenient script to use locally when doing repository manipulation, for example when you're cherry-picking other people's commit via patch and want to attribute it to them.

But changing commit author is quite easy with git, just do: ‘git commit -a —author “”’