From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:25:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] blame-options.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line
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In-Reply-To: <87txjr4tzx.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Also I wonder if this one Documentation/git-log.txt:156
>>
>>     git log -L '/int main/',/^}/:main.c
>>
>> should be more like one of these:
>>
>>     git log -L '/int main/,/^}/':main.c
>>     git log -L '/int main/,/^}/:main.c'
>>
>> I find it somewhat hard to spot the closing sq in the middle of a
>> string.
>
> There's a distinct advantage to keeping the sq before the colon, at
> least in my config (and I think I haven't changed the defaults as far as
> this goes): bash will try to complete a filename if you type
>
>   git log -L '...':mai<TAB>
>
> but not if you instead do
>
>   git log -L '...:'mai<TAB>

Interesting.