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Re: [PATCH 5/6] blame-options.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line

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Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Date
Jul 18, 2013, 11:56 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> Standard practice in Git documentation is for each variation of an
> option (such as: -p / --porcelain) to be placed on its own line in the
> OPTIONS table. The -L option does not follow suit. It cuddles
> "-L <start>,<end>" and "-L :<regex>", separated by a comma. This is
> inconsistent and potentially confusing since the comma separating them
> is typeset the same as the comma in "<start>,<end>". Fix this by placing
> each variation on its own line.
Ok, but why not fix them all in one go?
Edited to remove the false positives:

$ git grep -n '^.*,.*::$' Documentation/*.txt Documentation/blame-options.txt:12:-L <start>,<end>, -L :<regex>:: Documentation/config.txt:1252:gitcvs.dbuser, gitcvs.dbpass:: Documentation/config.txt:1513:http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime:: Documentation/git-add.txt:90:-e, \--edit:: Documentation/git-check-attr.txt:22:-a, --all:: Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt:26:-q, --quiet:: Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt:30:-v, --verbose:: Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt:42:-n, --non-matching:: Documentation/git-log.txt:65:-L <start>,<end>:<file>, -L :<regex>:<file>:: Documentation/git-log.txt:156:git log -L '/int main/',/^}/:main.c:: Documentation/git-p4.txt:171:--verbose, -v:: Documentation/git-p4.txt:282:--dry-run, -n::

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 7 of 12 in “fix blame -L regression; add tests”
  1. 0/6 fix blame -L regression; add testsEric Sunshine, Jul 17, 2013
  2. 1/6 line-range: fix "blame -L X,-N" regressionEric Sunshine, Jul 17, 2013
  3. 2/6 t8001/t8002 (blame): modernize styleEric Sunshine, Jul 17, 2013
  4. 3/6 t8001/t8002 (blame): add blame -L testsEric Sunshine, Jul 17, 2013
  5. 4/6 t8001/t8002 (blame): add blame -L :funcname testsEric Sunshine, Jul 17, 2013
  6. 5/6 blame-options.txt: place each -L option variation on its own lineEric Sunshine, Jul 17, 2013
  7. Thomas RastJul 18, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 18, 2013
  9. Thomas RastJul 22, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2013
  11. 6/6 blame-options.txt: explain that -L <start> and <end> are optionalEric Sunshine, Jul 17, 2013
  12. Thomas RastJul 18, 2013

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