Comment by kapp_in_life
5 years ago
So then you checkout at the refactor commit and look through the blame to continue searching. If you have to repeat this more than a few times then the person has probably left the company or hasn't touched the code in years so its better to understand it yourself before modifying.
I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that before.
No worries, after typing it out I definitely feel like there should be an easier way to say "show me the stack of commits that touched this line(s) of code", and I'm sure some git wizard has a fancy one liner that could more easily do that.