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by morgancmartin 1695 days ago
It looks nice and I can see why someone used to VS Code's GitLens would like to bring this over, it seems really seamless.

Personally, as a long-time magit user, I'm not sure I see any reason to make the switch. Can anyone more familiar with GitLens (possibly the author) provide any commentary on its differences with magit's blame functionality?

AFAICT, the only difference seems to be that the commits simply show on line selection instead of all at once, but there may be more going on here than I am noticing at first glance.
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oefrha 1695 days ago
The difference is that the blame is shown all the time. magit’s blame has to be activated (magit-blame) and the buffer is read-only in the Magit-Blame minor mode.

Personally I find the feature distracting and turn it off (gitlens.currentLine.enabled set to false).

Of course, GitLens also has a separate blame mode.

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morelisp 1695 days ago
> the buffer is read-only in the Magit-Blame minor mode.

Use `m` instead of `b`.

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