Documentation / blame-options.txton commit diffcore: add a pickaxe option to find a specific blob (15af58c)
   1-b::
   2        Show blank SHA-1 for boundary commits.  This can also
   3        be controlled via the `blame.blankboundary` config option.
   4
   5--root::
   6        Do not treat root commits as boundaries.  This can also be
   7        controlled via the `blame.showRoot` config option.
   8
   9--show-stats::
  10        Include additional statistics at the end of blame output.
  11
  12-L <start>,<end>::
  13-L :<funcname>::
  14        Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times.
  15        Overlapping ranges are allowed.
  16+
  17<start> and <end> are optional. ``-L <start>'' or ``-L <start>,'' spans from
  18<start> to end of file. ``-L ,<end>'' spans from start of file to <end>.
  19+
  20include::line-range-format.txt[]
  21
  22-l::
  23        Show long rev (Default: off).
  24
  25-t::
  26        Show raw timestamp (Default: off).
  27
  28-S <revs-file>::
  29        Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
  30
  31--reverse <rev>..<rev>::
  32        Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing
  33        the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last
  34        revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of
  35        revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in
  36        START.  `git blame --reverse START` is taken as `git blame
  37        --reverse START..HEAD` for convenience.
  38
  39-p::
  40--porcelain::
  41        Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
  42
  43--line-porcelain::
  44        Show the porcelain format, but output commit information for
  45        each line, not just the first time a commit is referenced.
  46        Implies --porcelain.
  47
  48--incremental::
  49        Show the result incrementally in a format designed for
  50        machine consumption.
  51
  52--encoding=<encoding>::
  53        Specifies the encoding used to output author names
  54        and commit summaries. Setting it to `none` makes blame
  55        output unconverted data. For more information see the
  56        discussion about encoding in the linkgit:git-log[1]
  57        manual page.
  58
  59--contents <file>::
  60        When <rev> is not specified, the command annotates the
  61        changes starting backwards from the working tree copy.
  62        This flag makes the command pretend as if the working
  63        tree copy has the contents of the named file (specify
  64        `-` to make the command read from the standard input).
  65
  66--date <format>::
  67        Specifies the format used to output dates. If --date is not
  68        provided, the value of the blame.date config variable is
  69        used. If the blame.date config variable is also not set, the
  70        iso format is used. For supported values, see the discussion
  71        of the --date option at linkgit:git-log[1].
  72
  73--[no-]progress::
  74        Progress status is reported on the standard error stream
  75        by default when it is attached to a terminal. This flag
  76        enables progress reporting even if not attached to a
  77        terminal. Can't use `--progress` together with `--porcelain`
  78        or `--incremental`.
  79
  80-M[<num>]::
  81        Detect moved or copied lines within a file. When a commit
  82        moves or copies a block of lines (e.g. the original file
  83        has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and then
  84        A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm notices only half of
  85        the movement and typically blames the lines that were moved
  86        up (i.e. B) to the parent and assigns blame to the lines that
  87        were moved down (i.e. A) to the child commit.  With this
  88        option, both groups of lines are blamed on the parent by
  89        running extra passes of inspection.
  90+
  91<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
  92alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying
  93within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent
  94commit. The default value is 20.
  95
  96-C[<num>]::
  97        In addition to `-M`, detect lines moved or copied from other
  98        files that were modified in the same commit.  This is
  99        useful when you reorganize your program and move code
 100        around across files.  When this option is given twice,
 101        the command additionally looks for copies from other
 102        files in the commit that creates the file. When this
 103        option is given three times, the command additionally
 104        looks for copies from other files in any commit.
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 106<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
 107alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying
 108between files for it to associate those lines with the parent
 109commit. And the default value is 40. If there are more than one
 110`-C` options given, the <num> argument of the last `-C` will
 111take effect.
 112
 113-h::
 114        Show help message.