[SCM-681] Git blame fails to report line authors on windows with core.autocrlf = true

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7
• Fix Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: maven-scm-provider-gitexe
• Environment: Windows; git configured with core.autocrlf = true
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: David Gageot
• Created: 25/Jun/12 02:34
• Updated: 12/Oct/13 02:56
• Resolved: 12/Oct/13 02:56

Description

Git blame cannot report line authors when each line is modified locally by the autocrlf parameter. It thinks every line is Not Yet Committed.

The fix is to use git blame -w instead of plain git blame, to ignore whitespaces.

See discussion here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4638500/git-blame-showing-no-history