[feature request] git blame

[samuela]

It would be great to have git blame functionality!

[Pandapip1]

It's been >1 year. Are there any plans to implement this?

[vitch]

I'd also be interested in this.

Is there a philosophical objection to adding it or is it just a question of time? I'm not familiar with the code of simple-git but I just had a quick look and I guess it would be a case of adding a new task. Is that right? Would you be open to a PR implementing it?

[vitch]

Although I just looked into it and it seems you can do:

let blameResponse = await this.git.raw(['blame', path]);

Which is maybe good enough?

[steveukx]

Hello, you're quite right... it just comes down to time to dedicate to the project.

If you'd like to create a task - use https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/blob/main/simple-git/src/lib/tasks/count-objects.ts as an example of how the tasks are created, the types are set up and added to the main simple-git prototype.

The response parsing generally runs line by line, parse-pull.ts is an example of complex response parsing using multiple line parsers.