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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blame: add a range option to -L
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 10:48:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bpcvftjk.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd3xbmv4w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I wonder if it makes the interface more consistent to rewrite the
> above comment like this:
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Allow "-L <something>,+20" to mean starting at <something>
> 	 * for 20 lines; "-L <something>,-5" for 5 lines ending at
> 	 * <something>; and "-L <something>,+-5" for 5 lines around
>          * <something>.
> 	 */
> 
> and the match the code.

I like this.


The other approach would be to use -B <num> / -A <num> / -C [num], -<num>
convention from 'grep'... but git-blame uses -C and -<num> for other
things.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03 18:06 [PATCH v2] blame: add a range option to -L Bill Pemberton
2010-05-03 18:23 ` Michael Witten
2010-05-04 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-04 17:48   ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2010-05-04 18:11 ` Matthieu Moy

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