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authorEric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>2013-07-17 17:25:32 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-07-17 18:02:22 -0700
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blame-options.txt: explain that -L <start> and <end> are optional
The ability to omit either end of the -L range is a handy but undocumented shortcut, and is thus not easily discovered. Fix this shortcoming. Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-L <start>,<end>::
-L :<regex>::
- Annotate only the given line range. <start> and <end> can take
- one of these forms:
+ Annotate only the given line range. <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>.
++
+<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
include::line-range-format.txt[]