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Re: [PATCH 1/1] docs/git-blame: describe sourceline and resultline

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PPPhilip Patsch <philip@decentsoftwa.re>
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Oct 14, 2025, 13:33 UTC
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On Friday, October 10th, 2025 at 9:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano gitster@pobox.com writes:
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> > - the line number in the file, where the line is found in the
> > stating <rev>;
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> Sorry; "starting <rev>" was what I meant.
Now that I look at it again, we never in the manpage define what a plain `<rev>` means if it is given? Am I missing something here?
We have `--reverse`, but e.g. neither `--since` nor `<rev>` appear in the list of options (`--since` is mentioned further down in `SPECIFYING RANGES`)
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