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git-blame missing output format documentation

From
Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name>
Date
Aug 13, 2009, 12:18 UTC
Message-ID
<4A840483.9090402@avtalion.name>
Hi,

"git blame" prefixes boundary commit tree-ish's with ^. This doesn't seem to be documented in the git-blame manpage.

Is it a convention used elsewhere, that it can go unmentioned?

Also, the manpage doesn't describe the format of the regualr, non-porcelain, output. Doesn't it deserve its own section?

The only non-obvious parts to me are the the boundary commit notation, mentioned above, and the filename in the second column.

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  1. Ori AvtalionAug 13, 2009

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