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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I love that they called it "blame" lol. They knew what it would be used for.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago

Not sure if was there from the beginning but it was originally developed by Linus Torvalds and he can be quite harsh to the Linux contributors.

[–] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Subversion tried to call it "annotate", but that didn't stick ;)

[–] ati@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Isn't it alias for git praise?