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I like how he creates an alias to blame called praise. He's right, blame is a loaded word. The command I really use to "blame" people is bisect... though some

I like how he creates an alias to blame called praise. He's right, blame is a loaded word. The command I really use to "blame" people is bisect... though sometimes I use that to find something good too

dilap 9y ago
I don't know, "praise" is a really generic word. "Blame" very specifically means, "who did this." And I feel like it's often used in a non-disparaging way: "Who organized this surprise party?" "You can blame me." Also, truthly, if you're looking to see who/win a line of code was authored, it's almost always because you're tracking down a problem. :)
dotancohen 9y ago
That is actually an SVNism. SVN had 'annotate', 'ann', and 'praise' all aliased to 'blame'.
- csswizardry 9y ago
  OP here. > That is actually an SVNism. Yep. From the article: > Taking the lead from SVN, I alias praise onto blame… :)
  - dotancohen 9y ago
    I actually did read the fine article afterwards and noticed that. Nice job, in fact this was one of the few HN submissions that drew me to both the comments and the article!
danellis 9y ago
It seems awfully silly. Are we really that afraid of hurting someone's feelings by "blaming" them for doing something positive?
- csswizardry 9y ago
  Hey! OP here. > Are we really that afraid of hurting someone’s feelings… I don’t do it to save peoples’ feelings: I do it because there are two separate use cases for determining the author of something—sometimes I really do not want to blame[1] someone. 1. blame — verb: feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong.
pkamb 9y ago
"praise" is equally as loaded. Should be "last-change" or something.
alexthehurst 9y ago
To me, the obvious alias has always been "git credit". It's specific, but completely neutral.
- csswizardry 9y ago
  Had someone on Twitter suggest `git who` which I think also strikes a great balance.
ekimekim 9y ago
I always thought of it as blaming a commit for a change, not a person for a mistake. I can see how it could be taken badly though since the output makes a point of putting the author's name next to the commit id.

dilap 9y ago

I don't know, "praise" is a really generic word. "Blame" very specifically means, "who did this." And I feel like it's often used in a non-disparaging way: "Who organized this surprise party?" "You can blame me." Also, truthly, if you're looking to see who/win a line of code was authored, it's almost always because you're tracking down a problem. :)

dotancohen 9y ago

That is actually an SVNism. SVN had 'annotate', 'ann', and 'praise' all aliased to 'blame'.

csswizardry 9y ago
OP here. > That is actually an SVNism. Yep. From the article: > Taking the lead from SVN, I alias praise onto blame… :)
- dotancohen 9y ago
  I actually did read the fine article afterwards and noticed that. Nice job, in fact this was one of the few HN submissions that drew me to both the comments and the article!

danellis 9y ago

It seems awfully silly. Are we really that afraid of hurting someone's feelings by "blaming" them for doing something positive?

csswizardry 9y ago
Hey! OP here. > Are we really that afraid of hurting someone’s feelings… I don’t do it to save peoples’ feelings: I do it because there are two separate use cases for determining the author of something—sometimes I really do not want to blame[1] someone. 1. blame — verb: feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong.

pkamb 9y ago

"praise" is equally as loaded. Should be "last-change" or something.

alexthehurst 9y ago

To me, the obvious alias has always been "git credit". It's specific, but completely neutral.

csswizardry 9y ago
Had someone on Twitter suggest `git who` which I think also strikes a great balance.

ekimekim 9y ago

I always thought of it as blaming a commit for a change, not a person for a mistake. I can see how it could be taken badly though since the output makes a point of putting the author's name next to the commit id.