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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Thomas Rast" <tr@thomasrast.ch>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>,
	"Philippe Blain" <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:25:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5z6s7pa6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7b64bf3302f934c44cf9364e4f008bb9ce26def.1603889270.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget's message of "Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:47:47 +0000")

"Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
>
> Make it clearer that a function can be blamed by feeding `git blame`
> '-L :<funcname>' by mentioning it at the beginnning of the description
> of the '-L' option.

I think it makes tons of sense to mention both <start>,<end> range
and <funcname> range in the description.

It is not a new issue you are introducing with this change, but I
think the latter does not deserve to be treated as if it were an
afterthought by being a mere parenthetical mention.

>  -L <start>,<end>::
>  -L :<funcname>::
> -	Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times.
> -	Overlapping ranges are allowed.
> +	Annotate only the line range given by '<start>,<end>'
> +	(or by the function name regex '<funcname>').
> +	May be specified multiple times. Overlapping ranges are allowed.
>  +
>  '<start>' and '<end>' are optional. `-L <start>` or `-L <start>,` spans from
>  '<start>' to end of file. `-L ,<end>` spans from start of file to '<end>'.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-29 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-28 12:47 [PATCH 0/6] blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-10-28 12:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt' Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-10-29 20:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-31 17:18     ` Philippe Blain
2020-10-31 17:29       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-28 12:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] doc: line-range: improve formatting Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-10-28 17:23   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-10-29 20:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-31 17:20       ` Philippe Blain
2020-10-28 12:47 ` [PATCH 3/6] blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-10-29 20:25   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-10-31 17:22     ` Philippe Blain
2020-10-28 12:47 ` [PATCH 4/6] doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-10-28 17:26   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-10-28 12:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] line-log: mention both modes in 'blame' and 'log' short help Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-10-28 17:33   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-10-29 12:43     ` Philippe Blain
2020-10-28 12:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-10-29 20:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-31 18:02     ` Philippe Blain
2020-10-31 18:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-01 17:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] " Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt' Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] doc: line-range: improve formatting Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] line-log: mention both modes in 'blame' and 'log' short help Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] blame: simplify 'setup_scoreboard' interface Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-11-01 17:28   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] blame: simplify 'setup_blame_bloom_data' interface Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget

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