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Identifying your changes

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Identifying your changes

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] In a multi-user environment with a large history, it's harder to detect when the changes were made by an individual. So how would you look for specific changes that only you made to a specific line of text? I'll give you a couple of seconds to think about how you do something like this. (upbeat music) All right, that's just perfect for the git blame command. It's sort of the cousin of the git log command, but it works on individual files and gives you more information about who changed what on a specific file. Let's check out our index.HTML file that's in this build folder, and it's right here, to see what sort of changes have been made to the file by individuals. So I can just do a git blame and then look for the build folder and look for this index.HTML file. Now, if you keep scrolling through this, it's going to show you every single change that was done and it's also going to show…

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