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Re: [PATCH v8 2/5] blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntax

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2013, 22:34 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> To save the user a lookup of the last line number, introduce $ as a
>> shorthand for the last line.  This is mostly useful to spell "until
>> the end of the file" as '-L<begin>,$'.
>
> Doesn't "-L <begin>" or "-L <begin>," do that already?  If it were
> to introduce "-L $-4," or "-L$-4,+2", I would understand why the
> addition may be useful, but otherwise I do not think it adds much
> value.

It is a quiet-period so there is no need to rush, but did anything happened further on this series?

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Message 7 of 21 in “git log -L”
  1. 0/5 git log -LThomas Rast, Feb 28, 2013
  2. 1/5 Refactor parse_locThomas Rast, Feb 28, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2013
  4. Thomas RastFeb 28, 2013
  5. 2/5 blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntaxThomas Rast, Feb 28, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2013
  8. Thomas RastMar 13, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2013
  10. 3/5 Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L'Thomas Rast, Feb 28, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2013
  12. 4/5 Implement line-history search (git log -L)Thomas Rast, Feb 28, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2013
  14. Thomas RastFeb 28, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2013
  16. Thomas RastFeb 28, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2013
  18. Thomas RastMar 1, 2013
  19. Thomas RastMar 1, 2013
  20. 5/5 log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcnameThomas Rast, Feb 28, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2013

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