Annotates each line in a diff hunk with author and commit information like blame.
$ git diff-blame HEAD^
diff --git c/git-diff-blame w/git-diff-blame
--- c/git-diff-blame
+++ w/git-diff-blame
ed3dc1d5 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:08:57 -0800 52) my $n_end = $n_ofs + $n_cnt - 1;
^275a5e3 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:04:26 -0800 53) if (!$create) {
^275a5e3 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:04:26 -0800 54) open($pre, '-|', 'git', 'blame', '-M', "-L$o_ofs,$o_end",
ed3dc1d5 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:08:57 -0800 55) - "-l",
^275a5e3 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:04:26 -0800 56) $oldrev, '--', $prefilename) or die;
^275a5e3 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:04:26 -0800 57) }
^275a5e3 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:04:26 -0800 58) if (!$delete) {
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 59) if ($newrev) {
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 60) open($post, '-|', 'git', 'blame', '-M', "-L$n_ofs,$n_end",
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 61) - "-l",
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 62) $newrev, '--', $postfilename) or die;
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 63) } else {
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 64) open($post, '-|', 'git', 'blame', '-M', "-L$n_ofs,$n_end",
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 65) - "-l",
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 66) '--', $postfilename) or die;
15f5a1f9 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:46:50 -0800 67) }
^275a5e3 (Desmond Brand 2014-01-09 12:04:26 -0800 68) }
Original version by @toddlipcon taken from here.