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   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        Annotate only the given line range.  <start> and <end> can take
  14        one of these forms:
  15
  16        - number
  17+
  18If <start> or <end> is a number, it specifies an
  19absolute line number (lines count from 1).
  20+
  21
  22- /regex/
  23+
  24This form will use the first line matching the given
  25POSIX regex.  If <end> is a regex, it will search
  26starting at the line given by <start>.
  27+
  28
  29- +offset or -offset
  30+
  31This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number
  32of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
  33+
  34
  35-l::
  36        Show long rev (Default: off).
  37
  38-t::
  39        Show raw timestamp (Default: off).
  40
  41-S <revs-file>::
  42        Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
  43
  44--reverse::
  45        Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing
  46        the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last
  47        revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of
  48        revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in
  49        START.
  50
  51-p::
  52--porcelain::
  53        Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
  54
  55--incremental::
  56        Show the result incrementally in a format designed for
  57        machine consumption.
  58
  59--encoding=<encoding>::
  60        Specifies the encoding used to output author names
  61        and commit summaries. Setting it to `none` makes blame
  62        output unconverted data. For more information see the
  63        discussion about encoding in the linkgit:git-log[1]
  64        manual page.
  65
  66--contents <file>::
  67        When <rev> is not specified, the command annotates the
  68        changes starting backwards from the working tree copy.
  69        This flag makes the command pretend as if the working
  70        tree copy has the contents of the named file (specify
  71        `-` to make the command read from the standard input).
  72
  73--date <format>::
  74        The value is one of the following alternatives:
  75        {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}. If --date is not
  76        provided, the value of the blame.date config variable is
  77        used. If the blame.date config variable is also not set, the
  78        iso format is used. For more information, See the discussion
  79        of the --date option at linkgit:git-log[1].
  80
  81-M|<num>|::
  82        Detect moving lines in the file as well.  When a commit
  83        moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file
  84        has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and
  85        then A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames
  86        the lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and
  87        assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A)
  88        to the child commit.  With this option, both groups of lines
  89        are blamed on the parent.
  90+
  91<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
  92alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving
  93within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent
  94commit.
  95
  96-C|<num>|::
  97        In addition to `-M`, detect lines 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 all other
 102        files in the parent for the commit that creates the file.
 103+
 104<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
 105alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving
 106between files for it to associate those lines with the parent
 107commit.
 108
 109-h::
 110--help::
 111        Show help message.