On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> (2) In the ranges "-L <anything>,/B/ -L /C/,<anything>", the >> beginning of the second range is found by choosing C that comes >> _after_ the end of the previous range (/B/ may choose either >> the second or the 4th line, and the only C that comes after >> either of them is the 5th line and that is where the second >> range should begin, not at the beginning of the file). The >> same for "-L 1,3 -L /C/" (only C that comes after 3 is eligible >> to be the beginning of the second range). > > So passing several -L arguments does not blame the union of what each > argument would blame individually? Doesn't that make it rather harder > to explain? I don't think Junio meant to imply that. Collecting the blame ranges can/should be a distinct step from coalescing them. Junio is saying that an -L /re/ range search should start after the maximum line number already specified by any preceding range. Once all input ranges are collected, they can be coalesced. (If a -L /re/ range happens to be coalesced with or into some other range, that's fine: you're still seeing blame output for the requested lines.) -- ES -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html