Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2010, 20:57 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <81b0412b1003201335g7b37c51mfa3e2280210ebb7e@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:18, Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> wrote:
>> <line range>
>> Its format should be <start pos>..<end pos> or just a <line number>.
>
> You might want to reconsider the line range syntax. Exactly the same syntax
> is already used to specify a commit range, so reusing it may lead to confusion.

I would actually recommend you take a look at -L option from blame. What I use most often and find very handy myself is this pattern:

	blame -L '/^void some_function()/,/^}/' -- path

as I do not have to count the line numbers.

There also was a discussion on allowing more than one -L to blame, which I think is applicable to this feature. Check the list archive for the past few months.