SMRTR ProgrammingMar 18, 2025Hacker News

"Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming

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Git-who is a command-line tool that identifies authors responsible for entire components or subsystems in a codebase, unlike git blame which focuses on individual lines. It offers three subcommands (table, tree, and hist) to provide different views of authorship in a Git repository, helping users understand who contributed most to various parts of the project.

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