[PATCH v2 07/16] blame: document multiple -L support
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
---
Documentation/blame-options.txt | 8 +++++---
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 489032c..0cebc4f 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 6cea7f1..f2c85cc 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):
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1.8.4.rc1.409.gbd48715
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>