diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.adoc b/Documentation/blame-options.adoc index 1fb948fc76..1ae1222b6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.adoc +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.adoc @@ -1,105 +1,105 @@ --b:: +`-b`:: Show blank SHA-1 for boundary commits. This can also be controlled via the `blame.blankBoundary` config option. ---root:: +`--root`:: Do not treat root commits as boundaries. This can also be controlled via the `blame.showRoot` config option. ---show-stats:: +`--show-stats`:: Include additional statistics at the end of blame output. --L ,:: --L ::: - Annotate only the line range given by ',', - or by the function name regex ''. +`-L ,`:: +`-L :`:: + Annotate only the line range given by `,`, + or by the function name regex __. May be specified multiple times. Overlapping ranges are allowed. + -'' and '' are optional. `-L ` or `-L ,` spans from -'' to end of file. `-L ,` spans from start of file to ''. +__ and __ are optional. `-L ` or `-L ,` spans from +__ to end of file. `-L ,` spans from start of file to __. + include::line-range-format.adoc[] --l:: +`-l`:: Show long rev (Default: off). --t:: +`-t`:: Show raw timestamp (Default: off). --S :: - Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. +`-S `:: + Use revisions from __ instead of calling + linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. ---reverse ..:: +`--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. `git blame --reverse START` is taken as `git blame - --reverse START..HEAD` for convenience. + revision like `..` where the path to blame exists in + __. `git blame --reverse ` is taken as `git blame + --reverse ..HEAD` for convenience. ---first-parent:: +`--first-parent`:: Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit. This option can be used to determine when a line was introduced to a particular integration branch, rather than when it was introduced to the history overall. --p:: ---porcelain:: +`-p`:: +`--porcelain`:: Show in a format designed for machine consumption. ---line-porcelain:: +`--line-porcelain`:: Show the porcelain format, but output commit information for each line, not just the first time a commit is referenced. - Implies --porcelain. + Implies `--porcelain`. ---incremental:: +`--incremental`:: Show the result incrementally in a format designed for machine consumption. ---encoding=:: - Specifies the encoding used to output author names +`--encoding=`:: + Specify the encoding used to output author names and commit summaries. Setting it to `none` makes blame output unconverted data. For more information see the discussion about encoding in the linkgit:git-log[1] manual page. ---contents :: - Annotate using the contents from the named file, starting from - if it is specified, and HEAD otherwise. You may specify '-' to make +`--contents `:: + Annotate using the contents from __, starting from __ + if it is specified, and `HEAD` otherwise. You may specify `-` to make the command read from the standard input for the file contents. ---date :: - Specifies the format used to output dates. If --date is not - provided, the value of the blame.date config variable is - used. If the blame.date config variable is also not set, the +`--date `:: + Specify the format used to output dates. If `--date` is not + provided, the value of the `blame.date` config variable is + used. If the `blame.date` config variable is also not set, the iso format is used. For supported values, see the discussion - of the --date option at linkgit:git-log[1]. + of the `--date` option at linkgit:git-log[1]. ---progress:: ---no-progress:: - Progress status is reported on the standard error stream - by default when it is attached to a terminal. This flag - enables progress reporting even if not attached to a - terminal. Can't use `--progress` together with `--porcelain` - or `--incremental`. +`--progress`:: +`--no-progress`:: + Enable progress reporting on the standard error stream even if + not attached to a terminal. By default, progress status is + reported only when it is attached. You can't use `--progress` + together with `--porcelain` or `--incremental`. --M[]:: +`-M[]`:: Detect moved or copied lines within a file. When a commit moves or copies a block of lines (e.g. the original file - has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and then - A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm notices only half of + has _A_ and then _B_, and the commit changes it to _B_ and then + _A_), the traditional `blame` algorithm notices only half of the movement and typically blames the lines that were moved - up (i.e. B) to the parent and assigns blame to the lines that - were moved down (i.e. A) to the child commit. With this + up (i.e. _B_) to the parent and assigns blame to the lines that + were moved down (i.e. _A_) to the child commit. With this option, both groups of lines are blamed on the parent by running extra passes of inspection. + - is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of +__ is optional, but it is the lower bound on the number of alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent commit. The default value is 20. --C[]:: +`-C[]`:: In addition to `-M`, detect lines moved or copied from other files that were modified in the same commit. This is useful when you reorganize your program and move code @@ -109,14 +109,14 @@ commit. The default value is 20. option is given three times, the command additionally looks for copies from other files in any commit. + - is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of +__ is optional, but it is the lower bound on the number of alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying between files for it to associate those lines with the parent commit. And the default value is 40. If there are more than one -`-C` options given, the argument of the last `-C` will +`-C` options given, the __ argument of the last `-C` will take effect. ---ignore-rev :: +`--ignore-rev `:: Ignore changes made by the revision when assigning blame, as if the change never happened. Lines that were changed or added by an ignored commit will be blamed on the previous commit that changed that line or @@ -126,26 +126,26 @@ take effect. another commit will be marked with a `?` in the blame output. If the `blame.markUnblamableLines` config option is set, then those lines touched by an ignored commit that we could not attribute to another revision are - marked with a '*'. In the porcelain modes, we print 'ignored' and - 'unblamable' on a newline respectively. + marked with a `*`. In the porcelain modes, we print `ignored` and + `unblamable` on a newline respectively. ---ignore-revs-file :: - Ignore revisions listed in `file`, which must be in the same format as an +`--ignore-revs-file `:: + Ignore revisions listed in __, which must be in the same format as an `fsck.skipList`. This option may be repeated, and these files will be processed after any files specified with the `blame.ignoreRevsFile` config option. An empty file name, `""`, will clear the list of revs from previously processed files. ---color-lines:: +`--color-lines`:: Color line annotations in the default format differently if they come from the same commit as the preceding line. This makes it easier to distinguish code blocks introduced by different commits. The color defaults to cyan and can be adjusted using the `color.blame.repeatedLines` config option. ---color-by-age:: - Color line annotations depending on the age of the line in the default format. - The `color.blame.highlightRecent` config option controls what color is used for - each range of age. +`--color-by-age`:: + Color line annotations depending on the age of the line in + the default format. The `color.blame.highlightRecent` config + option controls what color is used for each range of age. --h:: +`-h`:: Show help message. diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.adoc b/Documentation/git-blame.adoc index adcbb6f5dc..8808009e87 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.adoc @@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file SYNOPSIS -------- -[verse] -'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] - [-L ] [-S ] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=] - [--ignore-rev ] [--ignore-revs-file ] - [--color-lines] [--color-by-age] [--progress] [--abbrev=] - [ --contents ] [ | --reverse ..] [--] +[synopsis] +git blame [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] + [-L ] [-S ] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=] + [--ignore-rev ] [--ignore-revs-file ] + [--color-lines] [--color-by-age] [--progress] [--abbrev=] + [ --contents ] [ | --reverse ..] [--] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ lines that were copied and pasted from another file, etc., see the `-C` and `-M` options. The report does not tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or -replaced; you need to use a tool such as 'git diff' or the "pickaxe" +replaced; you need to use a tool such as `git diff` or the "pickaxe" interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph. Apart from supporting file annotation, Git also supports searching the @@ -50,47 +50,47 @@ OPTIONS ------- include::blame-options.adoc[] --c:: +`-c`:: Use the same output mode as linkgit:git-annotate[1] (Default: off). ---score-debug:: +`--score-debug`:: Include debugging information related to the movement of lines between files (see `-C`) and lines moved within a file (see `-M`). The first number listed is the score. This is the number of alphanumeric characters detected as having been moved between or within files. This must be above - a certain threshold for 'git blame' to consider those lines + a certain threshold for `git blame` to consider those lines of code to have been moved. --f:: ---show-name:: +`-f`:: +`--show-name`:: Show the filename in the original commit. By default the filename is shown if there is any line that came from a file with a different name, due to rename detection. --n:: ---show-number:: +`-n`:: +`--show-number`:: Show the line number in the original commit (Default: off). --s:: +`-s`:: Suppress the author name and timestamp from the output. --e:: ---show-email:: +`-e`:: +`--show-email`:: Show the author email instead of the author name (Default: off). This can also be controlled via the `blame.showEmail` config option. --w:: +`-w`:: Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and the child's to find where the lines came from. include::diff-algorithm-option.adoc[] ---abbrev=:: - Instead of using the default 7+1 hexadecimal digits as the - abbreviated object name, use +1 digits, where is at - least but ensures the commit object names are unique. +`--abbrev=`:: + Instead of using the default _7+1_ hexadecimal digits as the + abbreviated object name, use _+1_ digits, where __ is at + least __ but ensures the commit object names are unique. Note that 1 column is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit. @@ -124,21 +124,21 @@ header at the minimum has the first line which has: This header line is followed by the following information at least once for each commit: -- the author name ("author"), email ("author-mail"), time - ("author-time"), and time zone ("author-tz"); similarly +- the author name (`author`), email (`author-mail`), time + (`author-time`), and time zone (`author-tz`); similarly for committer. - the filename in the commit that the line is attributed to. -- the first line of the commit log message ("summary"). +- the first line of the commit log message (`summary`). The contents of the actual line are output after the above -header, prefixed by a TAB. This is to allow adding more +header, prefixed by a _TAB_. This is to allow adding more header elements later. The porcelain format generally suppresses commit information that has already been seen. For example, two lines that are blamed to the same commit will both be shown, but the details for that commit will be shown only once. Information which is specific to individual lines will not be -grouped together, like revs to be marked 'ignored' or 'unblamable'. This +grouped together, like revs to be marked `ignored` or `unblamable`. This is more efficient, but may require more state be kept by the reader. The `--line-porcelain` option can be used to output full commit information for each line, allowing simpler (but less efficient) usage like: @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ for each line, allowing simpler (but less efficient) usage like: SPECIFYING RANGES ----------------- -Unlike 'git blame' and 'git annotate' in older versions of git, the extent +Unlike `git blame` and `git annotate` in older versions of git, the extent of the annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision ranges. The `-L` option, which limits annotation to a range of lines, may be specified multiple times. @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ which limits the annotation to the body of the `hello` subroutine. When you are not interested in changes older than version v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision -range specifiers similar to 'git rev-list': +range specifiers similar to `git rev-list`: git blame v2.6.18.. -- foo git blame --since=3.weeks -- foo @@ -212,8 +212,9 @@ does not contain the actual lines from the file that is being annotated. . Each blame entry always starts with a line of: - - <40-byte-hex-sha1> ++ +[synopsis] +<40-byte-hex-sha1> + Line numbers count from 1. @@ -224,16 +225,17 @@ Line numbers count from 1. . Unlike the Porcelain format, the filename information is always given and terminates the entry: - - "filename" ++ +[synopsis] +filename + and thus it is really quite easy to parse for some line- and word-oriented parser (which should be quite natural for most scripting languages). + [NOTE] For people who do parsing: to make it more robust, just ignore any -lines between the first and last one ("" and "filename" lines) -where you do not recognize the tag words (or care about that particular +lines between the first and last one (_<40-byte-hex-sha1>_ and `filename` +lines) where you do not recognize the tag words (or care about that particular one) at the beginning of the "extended information" lines. That way, if there is ever added information (like the commit encoding or extended commit commentary), a blame viewer will not care.