From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:21:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] blame: accept multiple -L ranges
Message-ID: <20130709192119.GY408@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87a9lvcztv.fsf@hexa.v.cablecom.net>

Thomas Rast wrote:

> If you define it that way, the output of
>
>   git blame -L 4,6; git blame -L /A/,+20
>
> is significantly different from
>
>   git blame -L 4,6 -L /A/,+20
>
> Not just in the presentation or any possible coalescing, but in the
> meaning of the ranges.

I can see both meanings being useful.  I suspect that the "restart at
the top of the file for each LHS regex" meaning would be more useful,
though.

Thanks,
Jonathan