From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:34:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/5] blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntax
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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?