BetterXcodeGitBlame

Warning: This script modifies the conents of the Xcode package to wrap Xcode's internal version of git.

Warning: If you upgrade Xcode, you will need to re-run this script to restore functionality.

Installation

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisdanford/BetterXcodeGitBlame/master/install)

Overview

Xcode's "blame" view is extremely handy. For each line of a file, you can view the latest commit that modified that line.

However, Xcode exposes no options to control what flags are passed to the git blame command, and it's hard-coded to point to an internally-bundled version of git.

This installation script modified the Xcode-internal git to be wrapped by a shell script that passes some additional options for the git blame command:

• -w to ignore whitespace-only changes
• -M to ignore changes that only moved but didn't modify a line

Advanced Usage

Upgrading

Simply run the normal installation command, and installation will occur if the latest version is newer than the locally-installed version.

Uninstallation

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisdanford/BetterXcodeGitBlame/master/install) --uninstall

Redistibuting

You may find it useful to redistribute this project and install it across multiple machines. The download script and the --local flag to install aim to make this easy.

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisdanford/BetterXcodeGitBlame/master/download) -- ./BetterXcodeGitBlame/

# install
./BetterXcodeGitBlame/install --local

# uninstall
./BetterXcodeGitBlame/install --uninstall

Authors

• Chris Danford

License

Copyright 2018 Pinterest, Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.