diff --git a/contrib/blameview/README b/contrib/blameview/README
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-This is a sample program to use 'git-blame --incremental', based
-on this message.
-
-From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
-Subject: Re: More precise tag following
-To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:52:38 -0500
-Message-ID: <20070127235238.GA28706@coredump.intra.peff.net>
diff --git a/contrib/blameview/blameview.perl b/contrib/blameview/blameview.perl
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-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-use Gtk2 -init;
-use Gtk2::SimpleList;
-
-my $hash;
-my $fn;
-if ( @ARGV == 1 ) {
-	$hash = "HEAD";
-	$fn = shift;
-} elsif ( @ARGV == 2 ) {
-	$hash = shift;
-	$fn = shift;
-} else {
-	die "Usage blameview [<rev>] <filename>";
-}
-
-Gtk2::Rc->parse_string(<<'EOS');
-style "treeview_style"
-{
-  GtkTreeView::vertical-separator = 0
-}
-class "GtkTreeView" style "treeview_style"
-EOS
-
-my $window = Gtk2::Window->new('toplevel');
-$window->signal_connect(destroy => sub { Gtk2->main_quit });
-my $vpan = Gtk2::VPaned->new();
-$window->add($vpan);
-my $scrolled_window = Gtk2::ScrolledWindow->new;
-$vpan->pack1($scrolled_window, 1, 1);
-my $fileview = Gtk2::SimpleList->new(
-    'Commit' => 'text',
-    'FileLine' => 'text',
-    'Data' => 'text'
-);
-$scrolled_window->add($fileview);
-$fileview->get_column(0)->set_spacing(0);
-$fileview->set_size_request(1024, 768);
-$fileview->set_rules_hint(1);
-$fileview->signal_connect (row_activated => sub {
-		my ($sl, $path, $column) = @_;
-		my $row_ref = $sl->get_row_data_from_path ($path);
-		system("blameview @$row_ref[0]~1 $fn &");
-		});
-
-my $commitwindow = Gtk2::ScrolledWindow->new();
-$commitwindow->set_policy ('GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC','GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC');
-$vpan->pack2($commitwindow, 1, 1);
-my $commit_text = Gtk2::TextView->new();
-my $commit_buffer = Gtk2::TextBuffer->new();
-$commit_text->set_buffer($commit_buffer);
-$commitwindow->add($commit_text);
-
-$fileview->signal_connect (cursor_changed => sub {
-		my ($sl) = @_;
-		my ($path, $focus_column) = $sl->get_cursor();
-		my $row_ref = $sl->get_row_data_from_path ($path);
-		my $c_fh;
-		open($c_fh,  '-|', "git cat-file commit @$row_ref[0]")
-					or die "unable to find commit @$row_ref[0]";
-		my @buffer = <$c_fh>;
-		$commit_buffer->set_text("@buffer");
-		close($c_fh);
-		});
-
-my $fh;
-open($fh, '-|', "git cat-file blob $hash:$fn")
-  or die "unable to open $fn: $!";
-
-while(<$fh>) {
-  chomp;
-  $fileview->{data}->[$.] = ['HEAD', "$fn:$.", $_];
-}
-
-my $blame;
-open($blame, '-|', qw(git blame --incremental --), $fn, $hash)
-    or die "cannot start git-blame $fn";
-
-Glib::IO->add_watch(fileno($blame), 'in', \&read_blame_line);
-
-$window->show_all;
-Gtk2->main;
-exit 0;
-
-my %commitinfo = ();
-
-sub flush_blame_line {
-	my ($attr) = @_;
-
-	return unless defined $attr;
-
-	my ($commit, $s_lno, $lno, $cnt) =
-	    @{$attr}{qw(COMMIT S_LNO LNO CNT)};
-
-	my ($filename, $author, $author_time, $author_tz) =
-	    @{$commitinfo{$commit}}{qw(FILENAME AUTHOR AUTHOR-TIME AUTHOR-TZ)};
-	my $info = $author . ' ' . format_time($author_time, $author_tz);
-
-	for(my $i = 0; $i < $cnt; $i++) {
-		@{$fileview->{data}->[$lno+$i-1]}[0,1,2] =
-		(substr($commit, 0, 8), $filename . ':' . ($s_lno+$i));
-	}
-}
-
-my $buf;
-my $current;
-sub read_blame_line {
-
-	my $r = sysread($blame, $buf, 1024, length($buf));
-	die "I/O error" unless defined $r;
-
-	if ($r == 0) {
-		flush_blame_line($current);
-		$current = undef;
-		return 0;
-	}
-
-	while ($buf =~ s/([^\n]*)\n//) {
-		my $line = $1;
-
-		if (($commit, $s_lno, $lno, $cnt) =
-		    ($line =~ /^([0-9a-f]{40}) (\d+) (\d+) (\d+)$/)) {
-			flush_blame_line($current);
-			$current = +{
-				COMMIT => $1,
-				S_LNO => $2,
-				LNO => $3,
-				CNT => $4,
-			};
-			next;
-		}
-
-		# extended attribute values
-		if ($line =~ /^(author|author-mail|author-time|author-tz|committer|committer-mail|committer-time|committer-tz|summary|filename) (.*)$/) {
-			my $commit = $current->{COMMIT};
-			$commitinfo{$commit}{uc($1)} = $2;
-			next;
-		}
-	}
-	return 1;
-}
-
-sub format_time {
-  my $time = shift;
-  my $tz = shift;
-
-  my $minutes = $tz < 0 ? 0-$tz : $tz;
-  $minutes = ($minutes / 100)*60 + ($minutes % 100);
-  $minutes = $tz < 0 ? 0-$minutes : $minutes;
-  $time += $minutes * 60;
-  my @t = gmtime($time);
-  return sprintf('%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d %s',
-		 $t[5] + 1900, @t[4,3,2,1,0], $tz);
-}