When doing a git blame, git will blame the person who added or removed white space in a line (e.g. by indenting), not the person who originally wrote the code.
Say git blame -w to ignore such white-space changes. You want this. \
Note that you can also use it when diffing: git diff -w.
Example
Consider this method, created by a user in commit d47bf443:
def hello
'world'
end
^
$ git blame foo
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 1) def hello
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 2) 'world'
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 3) end
Now it's being changed to:
def hello
if world?
'world'
else
'universe'
end
end
Here is how Git blames those lines with and without the -w switch:
$ git blame foo
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 1) def hello
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 2) if world?
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 3) 'world'
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 4) else
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 5) 'universe'
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 6) end
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 7) end
^
$ git blame -w foo
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 1) def hello
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 2) if world?
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 3) 'world'
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 4) else
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 5) 'universe'
f5fae4c1 (Señor Foo 2012-12-19 14:47:36 +0100 6) end
d47bf443 (Arne Hartherz 2012-12-19 14:44:38 +0100 7) end
Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2012-12-19 13:48)