git-whence is an interactive version of git-blame that makes it easy to reblame at a previous version and follow a line through commit history
git whence src/git.rs
b to reblame at a previous version
B will pop the stack and blame at the initial version (first screenshot)
<Enter> to follow a line through commit history
press h for help
assuming ~/bin is on your PATH,
sh
cd ~/bin
curl -L https://github.com/raylu/git-whence/releases/latest/download/git-whence-$(uname -m | sed s/arm64/aarch64/)-$(uname -s | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sed -e s/darwin/apple-darwin/ -e s/linux/unknown-linux-gnu/) -o git-whence
chmod +x git-whence
alternatively, download a binary from the releases page
or install from source via cargo install git-whence: https://crates.io/crates/git-whence
if you get an error about how it "can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software",
this is because the quarantine extended attribute has been set by your browser.
either xattr -d com.apple.quarantine git-whence or use curl/wget to download instead