Feature request: interactive line blame

[KaspervdHeijden]

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Module(s)

mini.git

Description

A very nice feature would be to have line blame, maybe as virtual text, very much line gitsigns.

[echasnovski]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I did think about adding it. Not as a part of 'mini.diff', but as something like MiniGit.toggle_line_blame() (probably needs a better name since I don't really like the "blame" part, although it is canonical) in 'mini.git' which acts similarly to MiniDiff.toggle_overlay().

But it is not high priority. Mostly since there is :Git blame with possibly adjusted output.

[KaspervdHeijden]

Thank you for your swift reply! I was indeed unsure to which module to relate this to.

Just now tried the code provided above, which does something related, but not the same (maybe because of formatting).
It does not show the commit message, and to my weary eyes it's not visually clear which lines matches which blame, mainly because it is still a different window. This is why I feel that having it as virtual text would improve readability.

[echasnovski]

It does not show the commit message,

Executing something like :leftabove vertical Git blame -- % with plain 'mini.git' does show the commit hash per line. Calling MiniGit.show_at_cursor() when cursor is on the commit's hash will show more details about the commit.

[KaspervdHeijden]

Thank you for the suggestion. While that will work, it requires much more keystrokes, and would also get you out the editing context by opening various windows.