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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-02-20 07:44:07 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-02-20 07:44:07 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: More friendly message when locking the index fails. Document git blame --reverse. Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/blame-options.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-blame.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt13
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index 1ab1b96..7f28432 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
-S <revs-file>::
Use revs from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
+--reverse::
+ Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing
+ the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last
+ revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of
+ revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in
+ START.
+
-p::
--porcelain::
Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 6999cf2..4ef54d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
[-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
- [<rev> | --contents <file>] [--] <file>
+ [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index ff4aeff..66bf3b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not
specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
enabled interface to provide the necessary information.
+There are two formats accepted for patch files:
+
+1. mbox format files
++
+This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME
+formatting are ignored.
+
+2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl'
+script
++
+This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
+and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.
+
OPTIONS
-------