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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-11-09 10:44:56 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-11-09 10:44:56 -0800
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Documentation: move blame examples
This moves the example to specify a line range with regexps to a later part of the manual page that has similar examples. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -41,10 +41,7 @@ OPTIONS
Use the same output mode as gitlink:git-annotate[1] (Default: off).
-L n,m::
- Annotate only the specified line range (lines count from
- 1). The range can be specified with a regexp. For
- example, `-L '/^sub esc_html /,/^}$/'` limits the
- annotation only to the body of `esc_html` subroutine.
+ Annotate only the specified line range (lines count from 1).
-l, --long::
Show long rev (Default: off).
@@ -125,6 +122,12 @@ ll. 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use `-L` option like this:
git blame -L 40,60 foo
+Also you can use regular expression to specify the line range.
+
+ git blame -L '/^sub hello {/,/^}$/' foo
+
+would limit the annotation to the body of `hello` subroutine.
+
When you are not interested in changes older than the version
v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision
range specifiers similar to `git-rev-list`: