Eric Sunshine <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Rast <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> 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.
I am not sure if I want "maximum specified so far". I meant "start
searching at the last location", e.g.
-L 100,200 -L 4,6 -L /A/,+20
would want to find the first A after line 6, not after line 200.
> 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.)
Yes.
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