Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] blame: introduce $ as "end of file" in -L syntax

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:44:36 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thomas Rast <[email-masked]> 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>.

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Thomas Rast
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