From: david@lang.hm
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:05:45 GMT
Subject: Re: how to track the history of a line in a file
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901021805100.21567@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <200901030107.07228.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:

> 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