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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:38:18 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:38:18 -0700
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Merge commit 'v1.7.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix
* commit 'v1.7.0': (4188 commits) Git 1.7.0 Fix typo in 1.6.6.2 release notes Re-fix check-ref-format documentation mark-up archive documentation: attributes are taken from the tree by default Documentation: minor fixes to RelNotes-1.7.0 bash: support 'git am's new '--continue' option filter-branch: Fix error message for --prune-empty --commit-filter am: switch --resolved to --continue Update draft release notes to 1.7.0 one more time Git 1.6.6.2 t8003: check exit code of command and error message separately check-ref-format documentation: fix enumeration mark-up Documentation: quote braces in {upstream} notation t3902: Protect against OS X normalization blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF git-push: document all the status flags used in the output Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example Revert "pack-objects: fix pack generation when using pack_size_limit" archive: simplify archive format guessing ...
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-annotate(1)
NAME
----
-git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit info
+git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information
SYNOPSIS
--------
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit
-which introduced the line. Optionally annotate from a given revision.
+which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision.
+
+The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that
+they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only
+for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more
+familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems.
OPTIONS
-------