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[PATCH 1/4] doc: blame: show the boundary commit '^' caret mark

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date
May 25, 2020, 21:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20200525215751.1735-2-philipoakley@iee.email>
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<20200525215751.1735-1-philipoakley@iee.email>
Make the boundary commits' ^ caret findable in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
---
 Documentation/git-blame.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 7e81541996..02f9ad6fe9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
 
 --abbrev=<n>::
 	Instead of using the default 7+1 hexadecimal digits as the
-	abbreviated object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column
-	is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit.
+	abbreviated commit object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column
+	is used for a caret (`^`) to mark boundary commits.
 
 
 THE PORCELAIN FORMAT
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ When revision range specifiers are used to limit the annotation,
 lines that have not changed since the range boundary (either the
 commit v2.6.18 or the most recent commit that is more than 3
 weeks old in the above example) are blamed for that range
-boundary commit.
+boundary commit (preceded by `^` if shown).
 
 A particularly useful way is to see if an added file has lines
 created by copy-and-paste from existing files.  Sometimes this
-- 
2.26.2.windows.1.13.g9dddff6983
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  1. 0/4 Selectively show only blamed limesPhilip Oakley, May 25, 2020
  2. 1/4 doc: blame: show the boundary commit '^' caret markPhilip Oakley, May 25, 2020
  3. 2/4 blame: add option to show only blamed commits `--blame-only`Philip Oakley, May 25, 2020
  4. 3/4 blame: do not show boundary commits, only those blamedPhilip Oakley, May 25, 2020
  5. 4/4 blame: test the -b option, use blank oid for boundary commits.Philip Oakley, May 25, 2020
  6. Jeff KingMay 27, 2020
  7. Philip OakleyMay 27, 2020
  8. Jeff KingMay 27, 2020
  9. Philip OakleyMay 27, 2020
  10. Jeff KingMay 28, 2020
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  12. Philip OakleyMay 30, 2020
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