Git: discover which commits ever touched a range of lines

Question

I\'m having trouble figuring out how to use git blame for getting the set of commits that ever touched a given range of lines. There are similar questi

Answer 1

A few thoughts..

This sounds similar to this post, and it looks like you might get close with something like this:

git blame -L '/variable_name *= */',+1

As long as you know the definition to match against (for the regex).

There is a thread discussion here, about using tig and git gui (which apparently might handle this). I haven't tried this myself yet, so can't verify it (I'll give this a try later).