From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:44:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntax
Message-ID: <87wr3j6mpn.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vwr3jhw8z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> 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.

Heh.  That's actually a very good point; I think neither Bo nor me have
thought about allowing git log -L <begin>:<file>.

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