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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blame: allow -L n,m to have an m bigger than the file's 
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:37:36 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> wrote:
> and get what I want but that isn't very discoverable. If the range is
> greater than the number of lines just truncate the range to go up to
> the end of the file.

I agree this is the right thing to do. I'm working on a patch to
support matching multiple times when given a regex range and made just
that change as well. :-)

j.