Morphit

You’re absolutely right. Here’s a slopcoded rewrite that does run a ton faster and doesn’t use git last-modified (which is labelled experimental but was kind of the original inspiration). I even got it to do relative filenames instead of the full path to the root of the repo which I had been wanting.

cat .local/bin/git-slopblame

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Show when <paths> were last committed, with date, author and commit title

paths=("$@")
if ((${#paths[@]} == 0)); then
    paths=(".")
fi

git log --format='@@@%h%x09%as%x09%an%x09%s' --relative --name-only -- "${paths[@]}" |
awk '/^@@@/ {
        commit = substr($0, 4)
        next
    } length($0) && !seen[$0]++ {
        print commit "\t" $0
    }' |
while IFS=$'\t' read -r hash date author subject file; do
    printf '%s:\033[34m%s\033[0m \033[32m%s\033[0m \033[34m%s:\033[0m%s\n' \
        "$hash" "$date" "$author" "$file" "$subject"
done

cat .local/bin/git-lastblame

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#Show when <paths> were last committed, with date, author and commit title

paths=("$@")
if ((${#paths[@]} == 0)); then
    paths=(".")
fi

while IFS=$'\t' read -r hash file; do
  git log -n1 --pretty=format:"%h:%Cblue%as%Creset %Cgreen%an%Creset %Cblue$file:%Creset%s" --no-patch $hash
done < <(git last-modified ${paths[@]})

By default it will show all the files in your current directory. I like it to get an idea of of the lifecycle of one area of a project. Files will be listed ordered by most recent commit. Note that it’s not very fast so it’ll probably choke on big repos. Alias as g lb - press few key.

I know of an Android app - Urn. There’s also a web version at https://app.mieuxvoter.fr/en - the code for the website is from the same organization but I’m not sure how straightforward it is for others to host.