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diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index 8b6b56a544..0aba022ba6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ DESCRIPTION Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit which introduced the line. Optionally annotate from a given revision. +The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that +they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only +for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide more +familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. + OPTIONS ------- include::blame-options.txt[] |