Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index bb8edb4abc5adc8a7b9d46d839415997919871af..9516914236bbfa675006994620b1c8f61855de1d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -105,6 +105,19 @@ The contents of the actual line is output after the above
 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. 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:
+
+       # count the number of lines attributed to each author
+       git blame --line-porcelain file |
+       sed -n 's/^author //p' |
+       sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
+
 
 SPECIFYING RANGES
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