# [PATCH] Document git blame --reverse. 1 messages from 2009-02-19 to 2009-02-19. Participants: Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17898 ## Matthieu Moy, 2009-02-19 12:34 Subject: [PATCH] Document git blame --reverse. Message-ID: <1235046888-1782-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1235046888-1782-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy%40imag.fr ``` This was introduced in 85af7929ee125385c2771fa4eaccfa2f29dc63c9 but not documented outside the commit message. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy --- Actually, this doesn't fix the output of "git blame -h". I guess a parseopt specialist could do that with a trivial patch. Documentation/blame-options.txt | 7 +++++++ Documentation/git-blame.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 1ab1b96..7f28432 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ of lines before or after the line given by . -S :: Use revs from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. +--reverse:: + Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing + the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last + revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of + revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in + START. + -p:: --porcelain:: Show in a format designed for machine consumption. diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 6999cf2..5aa1dcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m] [-S ] [-M] [-C] [-C] [--since=] - [ | --contents ] [--] + [ | --contents | --reverse ] [--] DESCRIPTION ----------- -- 1.6.2.rc1.14.g7f87d ```