From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>, Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntax
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:44:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr3j6mpn.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwr3jhw8z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 7 Jun 2012 10:23:08 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> To save the user a lookup of the last line number, introduce $ as a
>> shorthand for the last line. This is mostly useful to spell "until
>> the end of the file" as '-L<begin>,$'.
>
> Hmph. This is mostly useful not to error out when user (perhaps
> mistakenly) expects that the end of file is spelled as "$"; both
> "git blame -L<begin>" and "git blame L<begin>," have always meant
> "til the end", IIRC.
Heh. That's actually a very good point; I think neither Bo nor me have
thought about allowing git log -L <begin>:<file>.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-07 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 10:23 [PATCH v7 0/5] git log -L, all new and shiny Thomas Rast
2012-06-07 10:23 ` [PATCH v7 1/5] Refactor parse_loc Thomas Rast
2012-06-07 10:23 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntax Thomas Rast
2012-06-07 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-07 17:44 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2012-06-07 10:23 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] Export three functions from diff.c Thomas Rast
2012-06-07 17:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-07 10:23 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L' Thomas Rast
2012-06-07 10:23 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] Implement line-history search (git log -L) Thomas Rast
2012-06-07 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-07 17:52 ` Thomas Rast
2012-06-10 9:38 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-06-15 4:40 ` [PATCH v7 0/5] git log -L, all new and shiny Junio C Hamano
2012-06-15 13:29 ` Thomas Rast
2012-06-15 15:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-16 6:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 10:11 ` Thomas Rast
2012-06-19 10:33 ` Junio C Hamano
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