These two patches add more information to the documentation for line history
(git log -L) :
* Mention explicitly that only the --patch and --no-patch diff formats are
supported
* Mention that any given regex must match in the starting revision
Regarding point 2 : I stumbled upon this while reading the history of
'filter_refs' in fetch-pack.c. I did
git log -s -L :filter_refs:fetch-pack.c
which shows a list of commits starting with 745f7a8cac (fetch-pack: move
core code to libgit.a, 2012-10-26). So then I did
git log -s -L :filter_refs:fetch-pack.c -L :filter_refs:builtin/fetch-pack.c
which fails with
fatal: -L parameter 'filter_refs' starting at line 1: no match
Philippe Blain (2):
Documentation/git-log: document accepted line-log diff formats
Documentation/git-log: mention that line-log regex must match in
starting revision
Documentation/git-log.txt | 9 +++++++--
Documentation/gitk.txt | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
base-commit: ad05a3d8e5a6a06443836b5e40434262d992889a
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-494%2Fphil-blain%2Fline-log-doc-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-494/phil-blain/line-log-doc-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/494
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