How to git blame a directory

Question

I would like to know how to use git blame to know who created a single directory.

When I try:

git blame DIRECTORY_NAME

I get:

Answer 1

I created a small function what loops over all files and makes a directory blame view similar to GitHub.

Output format is:

 FILENAME      COMMIT-HASH  Commit-DATE  AUTHOR  COMMIT-MESSAGE

looks like this

 myfile1    abceeee 2019-04-23 19:26  Radon8472  Added file example
 readme.md  abd0000 2019-04-24 19:30  Radon8472  Update Readme-File

blamedir() 
{ 
  FILE_W=35; 
  BLAME_FORMAT="%C(auto) %h %ad %C(dim white)%an %C(auto)%s"; 

  for f in $1*; 
  do 
    git log -n 1 --pretty=format:"$(printf "%-*s" $FILE_W "$f") $BLAME_FORMAT" -- $f; 
  done; 
}; 

usage-eamples:

• blamedir similar like blamedir ./
• blamedir DIRECTORY_NAME/

Feel free to change the display format by changing the Variable BLAME_FORMAT in the function.

I think it should be possible to set this function as git-alias too.