From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:23:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntax
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In-Reply-To: <d9e1235303c949849b9acfa37fc9e9a780d93873.1339063659.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

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>,$'.

Hmph.  This is mostly useful not to error out when user (perhaps
mistakenly) expects that the end of file is spelled as "$"; both
"git blame -L<begin>" and "git blame L<begin>," have always meant
"til the end", IIRC.

Because I do not offhand think of other & better uses of "$" as a
special case that conflicts with "the end of file", I do not think
it is a bad patch that needs to be rejected, though.