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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] doc: blame: show the boundary commit '^' caret mark
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 22:57:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200525215751.1735-2-philipoakley@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200525215751.1735-1-philipoakley@iee.email>

Make the boundary commits' ^ caret findable in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
---
 Documentation/git-blame.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 7e81541996..02f9ad6fe9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
 
 --abbrev=<n>::
 	Instead of using the default 7+1 hexadecimal digits as the
-	abbreviated object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column
-	is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit.
+	abbreviated commit object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column
+	is used for a caret (`^`) to mark boundary commits.
 
 
 THE PORCELAIN FORMAT
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ When revision range specifiers are used to limit the annotation,
 lines that have not changed since the range boundary (either the
 commit v2.6.18 or the most recent commit that is more than 3
 weeks old in the above example) are blamed for that range
-boundary commit.
+boundary commit (preceded by `^` if shown).
 
 A particularly useful way is to see if an added file has lines
 created by copy-and-paste from existing files.  Sometimes this
-- 
2.26.2.windows.1.13.g9dddff6983


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-25 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-25 21:57 [PATCH 0/4] Selectively show only blamed limes Philip Oakley
2020-05-25 21:57 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2020-05-25 21:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] blame: add option to show only blamed commits `--blame-only` Philip Oakley
2020-05-25 21:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] blame: do not show boundary commits, only those blamed Philip Oakley
2020-05-25 21:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] blame: test the -b option, use blank oid for boundary commits Philip Oakley
2020-05-27  7:30   ` Jeff King
2020-05-27 10:52     ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-27  7:23 ` [PATCH 0/4] Selectively show only blamed limes Jeff King
2020-05-27 10:24   ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-28 16:45     ` Jeff King
2020-05-28 18:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-30 16:18         ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-31 16:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-31 16:28         ` Junio C Hamano

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