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stage: Create
group: Source Code
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type: reference, howto
description: "Documentation on Git file blame."
---
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# Git file blame **(FREE)**
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[Git blame ](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame ) provides more information
about every line in a file, including the last modified time, author, and
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commit hash. To view it for a file:
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1. Go to your project's **Repository > Files** .
1. Select the file you want to review.
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1. In the upper-right corner, select **Blame** .
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When you select **Blame** , this information is displayed:
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If you hover over a commit in the UI, the commit's precise date and time
are shown.
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## Blame previous commit
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/19299) in GitLab 12.7.
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To see earlier revisions of a specific line, select **View blame prior to this change**
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until you've found the changes you're interested in viewing:
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## Associated `git` command
If you're running `git` from the command line, the equivalent command is
`git blame <filename>` . For example, if you want to find `blame` information
about a `README.md` file in the local directory, run the following command:
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```shell
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git blame README.md
```
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The output looks similar to the following, which includes the commit time
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in UTC format:
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```shell
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62e2353a (Achilleas Pipinellis 2019-07-11 14:52:18 +0300 1) [](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-docs/commits/master)
fb0fc7d6 (Achilleas Pipinellis 2016-11-07 22:21:22 +0100 2)
^764ca75 (Connor Shea 2016-10-05 23:40:24 -0600 3) # GitLab Documentation
^764ca75 (Connor Shea 2016-10-05 23:40:24 -0600 4)
0e62ed6d (Mike Jang 2019-11-26 21:44:53 +0000 5) This project hosts the repository used to generate the GitLab
0e62ed6d (Mike Jang 2019-11-26 21:44:53 +0000 6) documentation website and deployed to https://docs.gitlab.com. It uses the
```
## File blame through the API
You can also get this information over the [Git file blame REST API ](../../../api/repository_files.md#get-file-blame-from-repository ).
