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by mattigames 2133 days ago
I have always wondered why GitHub doesn't add such functionality, its a no-brainer how much it would help to have a way to right-click a function and see how has it changed through history, it could use an interface where you scroll through time (eg the most you scroll the older versions you see, until you reach when it was created); same thing for files.
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maybe some day after their search develops even the faintest idea of what programming language lexemes look like.
Presumably you’ve heard about git-blame, which is available on GitHub.
Yeah, I find it of little use due being syntax agnostic (e.g can't tell me about the changes on a function because it doesn't know what a function is). If you are taking about me asking the same for "files" I meant being able to see all the versions of a file in a single page (maybe using "infinite scroll" in case there are too many)