From f22a432b157c5673a1004934a2e6ba77dd55b356 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:29:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the fact that 'git annotate' is only for backward compatibility. When somebody is reading git-blame.txt (or git-annotate.txt) for the first time, the message we would like to send is: (1) Here is why you would want to use this command, what it can do (perhaps more than what you would have expected from "$scm blame"), and how you tell it to do what it does. This is obvious. (2) You might have heard of the command with the other name. There is no difference between the two, except they differ in their default output formats. This is essential to answer: "git has both? how are they different?" (3) We tend to encourage blame over annotate for new scripts and new people, but there is no reason to choose one over the other. This is not as important as (2), but would be useful to avoid repeated questions about "when will we start deprecating this?" As long as we describe (2) on git-annotate page clearly enough, people who read git-blame page first and get curious can refer to git-annotate page. While at it, subtly hint (3) without being overly explicit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-annotate.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index 8b6b56a54..0aba022ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ DESCRIPTION Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit which introduced the line. Optionally annotate from a given revision. +The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that +they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only +for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide more +familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. + OPTIONS ------- include::blame-options.txt[] -- 2.26.2