From a6ac5f9864958f65269d8d58a049324403b039fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sunshine Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:59:45 -0400 Subject: line-range: teach -L^/RE/ to search from start of file The -L/RE/ option of blame/log searches from the end of the previous -L range, if any. Add new notation -L^/RE/ to override this behavior and search from start of file. The new ^/RE/ syntax is valid only as the argument of -L,. The argument, as usual, is relative to . Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/line-range-format.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/line-range-format.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt index 42d74f75a..cf8441706 100644 --- a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ absolute line number (lines count from 1). This form will use the first line matching the given POSIX regex. If is a regex, it will search from the end of the previous `-L` range, if any, otherwise from the start of file. +If is ``^/regex/'', it will search from the start of file. If is a regex, it will search starting at the line given by . + -- cgit v1.2.1