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Re: how to track the history of a line in a file

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Jan 3, 2009, 02:05 UTC
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
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> david@lang.hm wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> You may find the --porcelain output format of git-blame useful to make
>>> your script safer and more robust.
>>
>> where is this output defined? I can look at it and understand it, but I
>> don't know what is guarenteeded to exist, what will be on a specific line,
>> and what may vanish on me.
>
> man git-blame | less -p PORCELAIN\ FORMAT
thanks,

am I missing something else or will git blame with a regex only return info on the first line it matches?

David Lang
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