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@@ -10,27 +10,14 @@
Include additional statistics at the end of blame output.
-L <start>,<end>::
- Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> can take
- one of these forms:
-
- - number
-+
-If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an
-absolute line number (lines count from 1).
-+
-
-- /regex/
-+
-This form will use the first line matching the given
-POSIX regex. If <end> is a regex, it will search
-starting at the line given by <start>.
-+
-
-- +offset or -offset
+-L :<regex>::
+ Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times.
+ Overlapping ranges are allowed.
+
-This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number
-of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
+<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>.
+
+include::line-range-format.txt[]
-l::
Show long rev (Default: off).
@@ -95,7 +82,7 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
running extra passes of inspection.
+
<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
-alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
+alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying
within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent
commit. The default value is 20.
@@ -110,7 +97,7 @@ commit. The default value is 20.
looks for copies from other files in any commit.
+
<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
-alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
+alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying
between files for it to associate those lines with the parent
commit. And the default value is 40. If there are more than one
`-C` options given, the <num> argument of the last `-C` will