Merge branch 'jw/imap-preformatted-html'

[git.git] / Documentation / blame-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index 1ab1b96cf9e4c72a7d4e2a8a1d5dd8f016ac9d79..df2a7c164130743b28f110bda3d323e978897bce 100644 (file)
--- 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.
@@ -67,7 +74,7 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
        Detect moving lines in the file as well.  When a commit
        moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file
        has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and
-       then A), traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames
+       then A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm 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 option, both groups of lines
@@ -83,8 +90,8 @@ commit.
        files that were modified in the same commit.  This is
        useful when you reorganize your program and move code
        around across files.  When this option is given twice,
-       the command looks for copies from all other files in the
-       parent for the commit that creates the file in addition.
+       the command additionally looks for copies from all other
+       files in the parent for the commit that creates the file.
 +
 <num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
 alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving