While there is descriptions for porcelain and incremental output formats, the default format isn't described. Describe that format for the sake of completeness. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-blame.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 3bf5d5d8b4..08008f4a60 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -93,6 +93,19 @@ include::blame-options.txt[] is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit. +THE DEFAULT FORMAT +------------------ + +When neither `--porcelain` nor `--incremental` option is specified, +`git blame` will output annotation for each line with: + +- abbreviated object name for the commit the line came from; +- author ident (by default author name and date, unless `-s` or `-e` is +specified); and +- line number + +before the line contents. + THE PORCELAIN FORMAT -------------------- -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara