How to show git author name in Sublime Text editor?
Ok a couple things here.
First off, The git blame feature is not a part of my GitGutter plugin, it is a part of the Git plugin.
Secondly, @skuroda is correct that you can only put an icon in the gutter.
What you can do to simulate this tho: is use the split pane View > Layout > Columns: 2 and put the git blame on the left pane and the actual file on the right pane. You will want to turn off word wrap View > Word Wrap
Here is a screen shot:
Then your only problem is to keep the 2 views in sync when you scroll. I haven't tested it but it looks like this sublime plugin might do that: glue views
Rubymine (and presumably IntelliJ as well) has an annotate feature that looks like this:
JD Isaacks answer above is the closest I've seen to this, but I don't think Sublime Text 3 has such a feature without a lot of fiddling (as he describes). Vscode has something similar, an "annotate" extension.