But in svn the feature is actually called "annotate"; "blame" and "praise" are mere aliases for it. To quote the book[0]:
you may find yourself typing svn blame …
or svn praise … instead of using the canonical
svn annotate command form. That's okay—the
Subversion developers anticipated as much,
so those particular command aliases work, too!
An interesting case of Poe's law, applied to command lines: an alias made in jest becomes so successful that users are actually using it for the ridiculed purpose fully believing it's the intended use.
Without looking at the archives, I believe that annotate and praise were introduced well after the initial implementation which used blame as the command. I may be wrong, though.
It seems the command is listed as `blame` even in the v1.0 book, but does even then have the `annotate` and `praise` aliases. In all the years I used svn I firmly believed annotate was the canonical form and it was the one I always used, so I've learnt something here (about svn, and maybe about myself).
But in svn the feature is actually called "annotate"; "blame" and "praise" are mere aliases for it. To quote the book[0]:
[0] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.tour.history.html#svn...