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[PATCH] Document git blame --reverse.

From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:14
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

This was introduced in 85af7929ee125385c2771fa4eaccfa2f29dc63c9 but
not documented outside the commit message.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <redacted>
---
Actually, this doesn't fix the output of "git blame -h".
I guess a parseopt specialist could do that with a trivial patch.

 Documentation/blame-options.txt |    7 +++++++
 Documentation/git-blame.txt     |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index 1ab1b96..7f28432 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
 -S <revs-file>::
 	Use revs from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
 
+--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.
+
 -p::
 --porcelain::
 	Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 6999cf2..5aa1dcc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
             [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
-            [<rev> | --contents <file>] [--] <file>
+            [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION
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