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-rw-r--r--Documentation/blame-options.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-blame.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/line-range-format.txt25
4 files changed, 48 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index b0d31df0e7..e9f984ba01 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -9,28 +9,11 @@
--show-stats::
Include additional statistics at the end of blame output.
--L <start>,<end>::
+-L <start>,<end>, -L :<regex>::
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
-+
-This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number
-of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
-+
+include::line-range-format.txt[]
-l::
Show long rev (Default: off).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 9a05c2b3d2..6cea7f1ce1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
- [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] [--abbrev=<n>]
- [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
+'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental]
+ [-L n,m | -L :fn] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
+ [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index a976534ab8..4687fe8192 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,19 @@ produced by --stat etc.
Note that only message is considered, if also a diff is shown
its size is not included.
+-L <start>,<end>:<file>, -L :<regex>:<file>::
+
+ Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>"
+ (or the funcname regex <regex>) within the <file>. You may
+ not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to
+ a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only
+ give zero or one positive revision arguments.
+ You can specify this option more than once.
++
+<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
+
+include::line-range-format.txt[]
+
<revision range>::
Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no
<revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the
@@ -140,6 +153,11 @@ Examples
This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all
topic branches when staying on a single integration branch.
+git log -L '/int main/',/^}/:main.c::
+
+ Shows how the function `main()` in the file 'main.c' evolved
+ over time.
+
`git log -3`::
Limits the number of commits to show to 3.
diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3e7ce72daa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+- 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
++
+This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number
+of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
++
+
+- :regex
++
+If the option's argument is of the form :regex, it denotes the range
+from the first funcname line that matches <regex>, up to the next
+funcname line.
++