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

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Jul 22, 2013, 10:38 UTC
Message-ID: <87txjr4tzx.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvc473gfe.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> 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>

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch