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Seeing the origin of content
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When two or more people are working on files, it can be highly
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useful at times to see who created or last changed certain content.
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To do this, using the annotate command like this::
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bzr annotate readme.txt
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If you are a pessimist or an optimist, you might prefer to use
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one of built-in aliases for ``annotate``: ``blame`` or ``praise``.
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Either way, this displays each line of the file together with
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* when it was last changed
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The various GUI plugins for Bazaar provide graphical tools for
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viewing annotation information. For example, the bzr-gtk plugin
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provides a GUI tool for this that can be launched using the
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``gannotate`` command::
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bzr gannotate readme.txt
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The GUI tools typically provide a much richer display of
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interesting information (e.g. all the changes in each commit)
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so they are often preferred over the text-based command by users.