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| author | Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> | 2013-08-06 09:59:40 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-08-06 14:34:43 -0700 |
| commit | 5bd9b79a2017daad1d600978b75c714eef74cac0 (patch) | |
| tree | bb6575567e2709bd448de7b5edfe4e9e99e252b1 | |
| parent | 91b5494e18965e51c924ca55aaa27e94ebd82dd2 (diff) | |
| download | git-5bd9b79a2017daad1d600978b75c714eef74cac0.tar.gz | |
blame: document multiple -L support
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blame-options.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-blame.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 489032c7a3..0cebc4f692 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ -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>. + Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times. + Overlapping ranges are allowed. ++ +<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[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 6cea7f1ce1..f2c85cc633 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] '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>] + [-L <range>] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> DESCRIPTION @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ DESCRIPTION Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision. -The command can also limit the range of lines annotated. +When specified one or more times, `-L` restricts annotation to the requested +lines. The origin of lines is automatically followed across whole-file renames (currently there is no option to turn the rename-following @@ -130,7 +131,10 @@ SPECIFYING RANGES Unlike 'git blame' and 'git annotate' in older versions of git, the extent of the annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision -ranges. When you are interested in finding the origin for +ranges. The `-L` option, which limits annotation to a range of lines, may be +specified multiple times. + +When you are interested in finding the origin for lines 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use the `-L` option like so (they mean the same thing -- both ask for 21 lines starting at line 40): |