Git file blame
Introduced in GitLab 2.5
Git blame provides more information about every line in a file, including the last modified time, author, and commit hash.
You can find the Blame button with each file in a project.
When you select the Blame button, you'll see a screen with the noted information:
If you hover over a commit in the UI, you'll see a precise date and time for that commit.
To see earlier revisions of a specific line, click View blame prior to this change until you've found the changes you're interested in viewing.
Associated git
command
If you're running git
from the command line, the equivalent command is
git blame <filename>
. For example, if you want to find blame
information
about a README.md
file in the local directory, run the following command:
git blame README.md
You'll see output similar to the following, which includes the commit time in UTC format:
62e2353a (Achilleas Pipinellis 2019-07-11 14:52:18 +0300 1) [![build status](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-docs/badges/master/build.svg)](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-docs/commits/master)
fb0fc7d6 (Achilleas Pipinellis 2016-11-07 22:21:22 +0100 2)
^764ca75 (Connor Shea 2016-10-05 23:40:24 -0600 3) # GitLab Documentation
^764ca75 (Connor Shea 2016-10-05 23:40:24 -0600 4)
0e62ed6d (Mike Jang 2019-11-26 21:44:53 +0000 5) This project hosts the repository used to generate the GitLab
0e62ed6d (Mike Jang 2019-11-26 21:44:53 +0000 6) documentation website and deployed to https://docs.gitlab.com. It uses the
File blame through the API
You can also get this information over the Git file blame REST API.