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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] blame: accept multiple -L ranges
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:21:19 -0700
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Thomas Rast wrote:

> If you define it that way, the output of
>
>   git blame -L 4,6; git blame -L /A/,+20
>
> is significantly different from
>
>   git blame -L 4,6 -L /A/,+20
>
> Not just in the presentation or any possible coalescing, but in the
> meaning of the ranges.

I can see both meanings being useful.  I suspect that the "restart at
the top of the file for each LHS regex" meaning would be more useful,
though.

Thanks,
Jonathan