On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> [Cooking]
>
> * by/line-log (2010-09-11) 18 commits
>  (merged to 'next' on 2010-09-12 at e29a029)
>  + log -L: do not free parents lists we might need again
>  (merged to 'next' on 2010-08-26 at a160ff1)
>  + Document line history browser
>  + Add tests for line history browser
>  + Add --full-line-diff option
>  + Add --graph prefix before line history output
>  + Add parent rewriting to line history browser
>  + Make graph_next_line external to other part of git
>  + Make rewrite_parents public to other part of git
>  + Hook line history into cmd_log, ensuring a topo-ordered walk
>  + Print the line log
>  + map/take range to the parent of commits
>  + Add range clone functions
>  + Export three functions from diff.c
>  + Parse the -L options
>  + Refactor parse_loc
>  + Add the basic data structure for line level history
>  + parse-options: add two helper functions
>  + parse-options: enhance STOP_AT_NON_OPTION
>
> How would one trace history of lines 440,450 in t/t7300-clean.sh starting
> from the tip of 'pu'?  "git log -p -L 440,450 pu -- t/t7300-clean.sh"
> would be the most natural but it does not work (it wants "pu" to be a
> path).  "git log -p -L 440,450 t/t7300-clean.sh pu" doesn't work either.

Please put the revision before the '-L' options, you can run:

git log -p origin/pu  -L 440,450 t/t7300-clean.sh

It will work.

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> The command line parser of this series needs to be rethought (didn't I say
> that many times?  Perhaps I was ignored).  Might want to kick this out of
> 'next' and move to the stalled category after 1.7.3.

Yes, you have mentioned this many times, and I will put some time on this issue.

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