web interfaces vs "git blame"

[Collin Funk]

Hi Jan,

Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> writes:

> gitweb (https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git) had
> its "blame" links removed long ago, yet now cgit
> (https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb) followed this unhelpful
> behavior. Can this please either be restored, or another easy to use
> (not involving typing in git commands by hand) mechanism be pointed
> out?

I wouldn't be surprised if 'git blame' was expensive to render for large
files with lots of history. Perhaps it got turned off to avoid bots
using it.

The Forgejo mirror has a working blame screen [1]. Hopefully that works
well enough for you.

I like 'magit-blame' in Emacs, if you use it.

Collin

[1] https://forge.sourceware.org/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-mirror