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author | Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> | 2020-11-01 17:28:41 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-11-01 15:54:14 -0800 |
commit | fd5c74e7818a478fac66d821c38c4c2275c77da6 (patch) | |
tree | bb76abf466bf8ac1d6be95778e85bcde61d97816 | |
parent | f9c8d8cbbea9cc55d26058a1de767731600ded44 (diff) | |
download | git-fd5c74e7818a478fac66d821c38c4c2275c77da6.tar.gz |
doc: line-range: improve formatting
Improve the formatting of the description of the line-range option '-L'
for `git log`, `gitk` and `git blame`:
- Use bold for <start>, <end> and <funcname>
- Use backticks for literals
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blame-options.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/line-range-format.txt | 24 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/line-range-options.txt | 6 |
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 88750af7ae..48bf0eeec5 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times. Overlapping ranges are allowed. + -<start> and <end> are optional. ``-L <start>'' or ``-L <start>,'' spans from -<start> to end of file. ``-L ,<end>'' spans from start of file to <end>. +'<start>' and '<end>' are optional. `-L <start>` or `-L <start>,` spans from +'<start>' to end of file. `-L ,<end>` spans from start of file to '<end>'. + include::line-range-format.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt index 829676ff98..43759eef89 100644 --- a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt @@ -1,30 +1,30 @@ -<start> and <end> can take one of these forms: +'<start>' and '<end>' can take one of these forms: - number + -If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an +If '<start>' or '<end>' is a number, it specifies an absolute line number (lines count from 1). + -- /regex/ +- `/regex/` + This form will use the first line matching the given -POSIX regex. If <start> is a regex, it will search from the end of +POSIX regex. If '<start>' is a regex, it will search from the end of the previous `-L` range, if any, otherwise from the start of file. -If <start> is ``^/regex/'', it will search from the start of file. -If <end> is a regex, it will search -starting at the line given by <start>. +If '<start>' is `^/regex/`, it will search from the start of file. +If '<end>' is a regex, it will search +starting at the line given by '<start>'. + - +offset or -offset + -This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number -of lines before or after the line given by <start>. +This is only valid for '<end>' and will specify a number +of lines before or after the line given by '<start>'. + -If ``:<funcname>'' is given in place of <start> and <end>, it is a +If `:<funcname>` is given in place of '<start>' and '<end>', it is a regular expression that denotes the range from the first funcname line -that matches <funcname>, up to the next funcname line. ``:<funcname>'' +that matches '<funcname>', up to the next funcname line. `:<funcname>` searches from the end of the previous `-L` range, if any, otherwise -from the start of file. ``^:<funcname>'' searches from the start of +from the start of file. `^:<funcname>` searches from the start of file. diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-options.txt b/Documentation/line-range-options.txt index 266263f6b4..1c90127300 100644 --- a/Documentation/line-range-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/line-range-options.txt @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -L<start>,<end>:<file>:: -L:<funcname>:<file>:: - Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" - (or the function name regex <funcname>) within the <file>. You may + Trace the evolution of the line range given by '<start>,<end>' + (or the function name regex '<funcname>') within the '<file>'. You may not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only give zero or one positive revision arguments, and - <start> and <end> (or <funcname>) must exist in the starting revision. + '<start>' and '<end>' (or '<funcname>') must exist in the starting revision. You can specify this option more than once. Implies `--patch`. Patch output can be suppressed using `--no-patch`, but other diff formats (namely `--raw`, `--numstat`, `--shortstat`, `--dirstat`, `--summary`, |