Support viewing git blame information when browsing code. I personally like GitKraken's approach of putting the blame information inline with the cursor.
Getting blame data
Got a prototype working here. Basically, we can use git blame -w -M -C --line-porcelain -L <start_line>,<end_line> <filename> to get blame information for a given range within a file. We then parse that into a data-structure we want, expose it over a api, and bingu bangu.
Rendering blame data
I do like how GitKraken renders blame information inline.
On hover over, we get a ton of data:
- Author
- Date of commit
- GitHub issue / PR
- Removed and added line (diff)
- Commit SHA (hyperlinked)
Support viewing git blame information when browsing code. I personally like GitKraken's approach of putting the blame information inline with the cursor.
Getting blame data
Got a prototype working here. Basically, we can use
git blame -w -M -C --line-porcelain -L <start_line>,<end_line> <filename>to get blame information for a given range within a file. We then parse that into a data-structure we want, expose it over a api, and bingu bangu.Rendering blame data
I do like how GitKraken renders blame information inline.
On hover over, we get a ton of data: