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Justin Civi
Justin Civi

Reputation: 913

How can I annotate a deleted file in git?

I want to annotate/blame a file in a git repository on a revision using the following command:

git annotate [options] file [revision]

However, the file does not exist in the current repository anymore, but I know that the file was exist in revision f80133a.

git annotate java/org/apache/catalina/valves/CometConnectionManagerValve.java f80133a
fatal: cannot stat path 'java/org/apache/catalina/valves/CometConnectionManagerValve.java': No such file or directory

Is there simple way to annotate a deleted file without checking out the revision f80133a in this situation?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 244

Answers (2)

Amadan
Amadan

Reputation: 198436

git stash                # if you have pending changes
git checkout f80133a
git annotate java/org/apache/catalina/valves/CometConnectionManagerValve.java > annotation.txt
git checkout master      # or develop, or wherever you were
git stash pop            # if stashed

EDIT after OP's edit: without checking out, I don't think so, but I may be wrong.

EDIT2: I am wrong. You can also trick git:

touch java/org/apache/catalina/valves/CometConnectionManagerValve.java
git annotate java/org/apache/catalina/valves/CometConnectionManagerValve.java f80133a
rm java/org/apache/catalina/valves/CometConnectionManagerValve.java

Upvotes: 2

ashishmohite
ashishmohite

Reputation: 1120

for the instance you can checkout to that commit to see the blame like

git checkout f80133a

after this you will reach that commit in a detached head state then do blame

git annotate [options] file

and once you are done

git checkout your_prev_branch_name

Upvotes: 0

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