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2020-11-01doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiffPhilippe Blain
Several Git commands can make use of the builtin userdiff patterns, but it's not obvious in the documentation. Add pointers to the 'Defining a custom hunk header' part of gitattributes(5) in the description of the following options: - the '--function-context' option of `git diff` and friends - the '--function-context' option of `git grep` - the '-L :<funcname>' option of `git log`, `gitk` and `git blame` In 'git-grep.txt', take the opportunity to use backticks in the description of '--show-function', and improve the wording of the desription of '--function-context'. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-01doc: line-range: improve formattingPhilippe Blain
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>
2015-04-20Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>Matthieu Moy
The old wording was somehow implying that <start> and <end> were not regular expressions. Also, the common case is to use a plain function name here so <funcname> makes sense (the fact that it is a regular expression is documented in line-range-format.txt). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06line-range: teach -L^:RE to search from start of fileEric Sunshine
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. Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06line-range: teach -L:RE to search from end of previous -L rangeEric Sunshine
For consistency with -L/RE/, teach -L:RE to search relative to the end of the previous -L range, if any. The new behavior invalidates one test in t4211 which assumes that -L:RE begins searching at start of file. This test will be resurrected in a follow-up patch which teaches -L:RE how to override the default relative search behavior. Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06line-range: teach -L^/RE/ to search from start of fileEric Sunshine
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 <start> argument of -L<start>,<end>. The <end> argument, as usual, is relative to <start>. Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06line-range-format.txt: document -L/RE/ relative searchEric Sunshine
Option -L/RE/ of blame/log now searches relative to the previous -L range, if any. Document this. Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06line-range-format.txt: clarify -L:regex usage formEric Sunshine
blame/log documentation describes -L option as: -L<start>,<end> -L:<regex> <start> and <end> can take one of these forms: * number * /regex/ * +offset or -offset * :regex which is incorrect and confusing since :regex is not one of the valid forms of <start> or <end>; in fact, it must be -L's lone argument. Clarify by discussing :<regex> at the same indentation level as "<start> and <end>...": -L<start>,<end> -L:<regex> <start> and <end> can take one of these forms: * number * /regex/ * +offset or -offset If :<regex> is given in place of <start> and <end> ... Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcnameThomas Rast
This new syntax finds a funcname matching /pattern/, and then takes from there up to (but not including) the next funcname. So you can say git log -L:main:main.c and it will dig up the main() function and show its line-log, provided there are no other funcnames matching 'main'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28Refactor parse_locBo Yang
We want to use the same style of -L n,m argument for 'git log -L' as for git-blame. Refactor the argument parsing of the range arguments from builtin/blame.c to the (new) file that will hold the 'git log -L' logic. To accommodate different data structures in blame and log -L, the file contents are abstracted away; parse_range_arg takes a callback that it uses to get the contents of a line of the (notional) file. The new test is for a case that made me pause during debugging: the 'blame -L with invalid end' test was the only one that noticed an outright failure to parse the end *at all*. So make a more explicit test for that. Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>