From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:57:56 GMT
Subject: Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser
Message-ID: <7vbpeibtij.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b1003201335g7b37c51mfa3e2280210ebb7e@mail.gmail.com>

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

> 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.