Re: [PATCH] blame: add --fuzzy-lines command line option

> Isabella Stephens <istephens@atlassian.com> writes:
> 
>> If the -L option is used to specify a line range in git blame, and the
>> end of the range is past the end of the file, git will fail with a fatal
>> error. It may instead be desirable to perform a git blame for the line
>> numbers in the intersection of the file and the specified line range.
> 
> Even though erroring out upon such input was done as a deliberate
> design decision, in retrospect, I do not think the design decision
> made much sense.
> 
> The code already takes a nonsense input and tries to make best sense
> of it, e.g. "-L10,6" is interpreted as "-L6,10" instead of erroring
> out.  So if we were to do this kind of change, I suspect that it may
> be better to do so unconditionally without introducing a new option.
> 
> Thanks.
>