Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blame: add a range option to -L

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 10:48:31 -0700 (PDT)

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> 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
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