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See the commit and author that last changed each line in a pinned column (Xcode-style) on the right of the Comparing branches and commits view.

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Turning Blame on

Turn on the Blame in compare view toggle in Settings → ParalleLane → Git. When it’s on, the column appears automatically in every Compare view.
The Blame column pinned to the right of Compare's unified diff, showing author, relative date, and commit summary grouped by commit
Blame appears only in the unified mode of the Compare view. It doesn’t appear in split mode, the commit diff tab, the Working copy diff, or file history. The reference commit is Compare’s head.

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Reading the column

  • Grouped by commit groups consecutive lines from the same commit into one block, with Author · relative date on the first line and · commit summary on the second.
  • Pinning to the right of the viewport keeps the column in place even when you scroll the code horizontally.
  • Deleted lines are blank, with no blame shown for a line that no longer exists at head.
  • Hover card appears when you hover over a cell, showing the author’s name and email, the absolute date, the 7-character SHA, and the message summary.

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Interactions

  • Click switches to the graph tab, selecting and scrolling to that commit.
  • Right-click opens a menu with Open this commit’s diff (repeating it walks further back in history), Show in graph, and Copy SHA.
Blame can’t trace back through renames. Lines predating the rename can show the rename commit as the author.
If blame answers “who last changed this line”, File history shows “which commits this file has gone through”.