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 <h1>
 git-annotate(1) Manual Page
 </h1>
 <h2>NAME</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <p>git-annotate -
  Annotate file lines with commit information
 </p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>git annotate</em> [options] file [revision]</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit
 which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision.</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>The only difference between this command and <a href="git-blame.html">git-blame(1)</a> 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.</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -b
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show blank SHA-1 for boundary commits. This can also
  be controlled via the <tt>blame.blankboundary</tt> config option.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --root
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Do not treat root commits as boundaries. This can also be
  controlled via the <tt>blame.showroot</tt> config option.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --show-stats
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Include additional statistics at the end of blame output.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -L &lt;start&gt;,&lt;end&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Annotate only the given line range. &lt;start&gt; and &lt;end&gt; can take
  one of these forms:
 </p>
 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 <li>
 <p>
 number
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>If &lt;start&gt; or &lt;end&gt; is a number, it specifies an
 absolute line number (lines count from 1).</p></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 /regex/
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This form will use the first line matching the given
 POSIX regex. If &lt;end&gt; is a regex, it will search
 starting at the line given by &lt;start&gt;.</p></div>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p>
 +offset or -offset
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is only valid for &lt;end&gt; and will specify a number
 of lines before or after the line given by &lt;start&gt;.</p></div>
 </li>
 </ul></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -l
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show long rev (Default: off).
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -t
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show raw timestamp (Default: off).
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -S &lt;revs-file&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling <a href="git-rev-list.html">git-rev-list(1)</a>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --reverse
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -p
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --porcelain
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --incremental
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show the result incrementally in a format designed for
  machine consumption.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --encoding=&lt;encoding&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Specifies the encoding used to output author names
  and commit summaries. Setting it to <tt>none</tt> makes blame
  output unconverted data. For more information see the
  discussion about encoding in the <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>
  manual page.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --contents &lt;file&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  When &lt;rev&gt; 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
  <tt>-</tt> to make the command read from the standard input).
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --date &lt;format&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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 <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -M|&lt;num&gt;|
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  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 <em>blame</em> 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.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>&lt;num&gt; is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
 alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
 within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent
 commit. The default value is 20.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -C|&lt;num&gt;|
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  In addition to <tt>-M</tt>, 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.
 </p>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>&lt;num&gt; is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
 alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
 between files for it to associate those lines with the parent
 commit. And the default value is 40. If there are more than one
 <tt>-C</tt> options given, the &lt;num&gt; argument of the last <tt>-C</tt> will
 take effect.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 -h
 </dt>
 <dt class="hdlist1">
 --help
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Show help message.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-blame.html">git-blame(1)</a></p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_author">AUTHOR</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Written by Ryan Anderson &lt;<a href="mailto:ryan@michonline.com">ryan@michonline.com</a>&gt;.</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 </div>
 <div id="footer">
 <div id="footer-text">
 Last updated 2009-03-03 08:28:29 UTC
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	<h1>
	git-annotate(1) Manual Page
	</h1>
	<h2>NAME</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<p>git-annotate -
	Annotate file lines with commit information
	</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph"><p><em>git annotate</em> [options] file [revision]</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph"><p>Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit
	which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision.</p></div>
	<div class="paragraph"><p>The only difference between this command and <a href="git-blame.html">git-blame(1)</a> 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.</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="dlist"><dl>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-b
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Show blank SHA-1 for boundary commits. This can also
	be controlled via the <tt>blame.blankboundary</tt> config option.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--root
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Do not treat root commits as boundaries. This can also be
	controlled via the <tt>blame.showroot</tt> config option.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--show-stats
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Include additional statistics at the end of blame output.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-L <start>,<end>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> can take
	one of these forms:
	</p>
	<div class="ulist"><ul>
	<li>
	<p>
	number
	</p>
	<div class="paragraph"><p>If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an
	absolute line number (lines count from 1).</p></div>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>
	/regex/
	</p>
	<div class="paragraph"><p>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>.</p></div>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>
	+offset or -offset
	</p>
	<div class="paragraph"><p>This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number
	of lines before or after the line given by <start>.</p></div>
	</li>
	</ul></div>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-l
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Show long rev (Default: off).
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-t
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Show raw timestamp (Default: off).
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-S <revs-file>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling <a href="git-rev-list.html">git-rev-list(1)</a>.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--reverse
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	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>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-p
	</dt>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--porcelain
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--incremental
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Show the result incrementally in a format designed for
	machine consumption.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--encoding=<encoding>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Specifies the encoding used to output author names
	and commit summaries. Setting it to <tt>none</tt> makes blame
	output unconverted data. For more information see the
	discussion about encoding in the <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>
	manual page.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--contents <file>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	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
	<tt>-</tt> to make the command read from the standard input).
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--date <format>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	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 <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-M\|<num>\|
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	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 <em>blame</em> 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.
	</p>
	<div class="paragraph"><p><num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
	alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
	within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent
	commit. The default value is 20.</p></div>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-C\|<num>\|
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	In addition to <tt>-M</tt>, 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.
	</p>
	<div class="paragraph"><p><num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
	alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
	between files for it to associate those lines with the parent
	commit. And the default value is 40. If there are more than one
	<tt>-C</tt> options given, the <num> argument of the last <tt>-C</tt> will
	take effect.</p></div>
	</dd>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	-h
	</dt>
	<dt class="hdlist1">
	--help
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Show help message.
	</p>
	</dd>
	</dl></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-blame.html">git-blame(1)</a></p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_author">AUTHOR</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph"><p>Written by Ryan Anderson <<a href="mailto:ryan@michonline.com">ryan@michonline.com</a>>.</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
	</div>
	<div id="footer">
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