Finding the author of a line of code in Mercurial

Question

How do I find out who is responsible for a specific line of code? I know the linenumber and the filename but I would like Mercurial to tell me the author(s) of that specific lin

Answer 1

on the command line , you can use either hg blame or hg annotate.

$ hg blame -u -c -l Filename

-u --user                list the author (long with -v)
-c --changeset           list the changeset
-l --line-number         show line number at the first appearance