git-self-blame

git-self-blame is a simple git plugin that lets you take the blame for code
you didn’t write.

Motivation

Ever wonder, Who wrote this garbage code? Sure, you could find out with git blame,
but even if it wasn’t you:

• Maybe you approved that garbage in code review.
• Maybe you could’ve mentored the author on writing less-garbagey code.
• Maybe you helped foster a culture of shipping garbage.
• Maybe you put pressure on deadlines that lead to the garbaginess.
• Maybe you’ve written things much, much worse.

Take some responsibility instead with git self-blame.

“You can put the blame on me.”
—Akon, on his motto as a Linux kernel maintainer

Features

• Doesn’t change your git history or configuration or anything else. This is a real tool, not some joke to mess up your whole repo.
• Definitely works in Bash and Zsh. Probably works in most other shells?
• Accepts any arguments that git blame accepts.
• Can be safely run in parallel with other git commands (including
  other git self-blame commands).
• It blames you for everything, what more do you want?

Installation

git clone https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/git-self-blame.git
cd git-self-blame
export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)
# If you want to actually use this more than once, add this
# to your PATH in a more permanent place, like your
# `~/.bashrc` or `~/.zshrc` files.

How does it work?

There’s a handy walkthrough
in the source!

Who are you?

I’m Jacob. I do a lot of @jacobevelyn">humor writing and
@jacobevelyn">tech writing and
code writing, and you can blame me for all
of it.