tig blame view: How to come back (child commit) after loading parent commit

Question

In a blame view, I use ',' to load blame for the parent commit. How to come back to the child?

Answer 1

You can come back to the child with <, i.e. shift + ,

Answer 2

How I use TIG blame view:

• Step backwards in time to the commit of a given line (B key)
• Step backwards to the parent commit of a given line (, key).
• Stepping forwards can be done by going to the main view (m key), selecting a more recent revision, and entering blame view again (B key).

It does not preserve the viewing location when stepping to a parent commit (it seems to when using the line's commit).

(From my answer elsewhere https://stackoverflow.com/a/15301595/331858)

Answer 3

Example usage pattern:

Open tig in your git repository's folder:

cd your/repo
tig

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1. Use up / down cursor keys - to select the revision you want to start from
2. t - enter tree view
3. up / down / enter to find the file you want
4. b to open blame view
5. up / down - to move up and down the lines in the file
6. View full patch for selected line:
   • enter to view the last patch for that line
   • q to close the patch view
7. To view older versions:
   • , - to show the blame of the file from before this patch
   • < (i.e. shift+,) to step back out to more recent versions of the file

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You can jump straight to a file with:

tig blame filename