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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-07-22 11:23:53 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-07-22 11:23:53 -0700
commite9682cc028e4d360dcf1364691095accc75f4b74 (patch)
treee63f065122dc868da2a7c0dc1f5e90e1980c831a /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'tr/protect-low-3-fds' (diff)
parentblame-options.txt: explain that -L <start> and <end> are optional (diff)
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Merge branch 'es/blame-L-breakage'
The refactoring made for parsing "-L" option recently to support "git log -L" seems to have broken "git blame -L X,-5" to show 5 lines leading to X. * es/blame-L-breakage: blame-options.txt: explain that -L <start> and <end> are optional blame-options.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line t8001/t8002 (blame): add blame -L :funcname tests t8001/t8002 (blame): add blame -L tests t8001/t8002 (blame): modernize style line-range: fix "blame -L X,-N" regression
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diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index e9f984ba01..4e55b1564e 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
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@@ -9,9 +9,13 @@
--show-stats::
Include additional statistics at the end of blame output.
--L <start>,<end>, -L :<regex>::
- Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> can take
- one of these forms:
+-L <start>,<end>::
+-L :<regex>::
+ Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> are optional.
+ ``-L <start>'' or ``-L <start>,'' spans from <start> to end of file.
+ ``-L ,<end>'' spans from start of file to <end>.
++
+<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
include::line-range-format.txt[]