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diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index da15379ae5..0aba022ba6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -7,13 +7,18 @@ git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit info SYNOPSIS -------- -git-annotate [options] file [revision] +'git annotate' [options] file [revision] DESCRIPTION ----------- Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit which introduced the line. Optionally annotate 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 more +familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. + OPTIONS ------- include::blame-options.txt[] |