Merge branch 'maint'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 44678b0c3601512df024e3670aadeabd5317b0c9..fba374d652723161c3683d1be98c08ba573057cc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-blame' [-c] [-b] [--root] [-s] [-l] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-p] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
+'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>
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision.
 Also it can limit the range of lines annotated.
 
 This report doesn't tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or
-replaced; you need to use a tool such as gitlink:git-diff[1] or the "pickaxe"
+replaced; you need to use a tool such as 'git-diff' or the "pickaxe"
 interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph.
 
 Apart from supporting file annotation, git also supports searching the
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ OPTIONS
 include::blame-options.txt[]
 
 -c::
-       Use the same output mode as gitlink:git-annotate[1] (Default: off).
+       Use the same output mode as linkgit:git-annotate[1] (Default: off).
 
 --score-debug::
        Include debugging information related to the movement of
@@ -49,20 +49,27 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
        file (see `-M`).  The first number listed is the score.
        This is the number of alphanumeric characters detected
        to be moved between or within files.  This must be above
-       a certain threshold for git-blame to consider those lines
+       a certain threshold for 'git-blame' to consider those lines
        of code to have been moved.
 
--f, --show-name::
+-f::
+--show-name::
        Show filename in the original commit.  By default
        filename is shown if there is any line that came from a
        file with different name, due to rename detection.
 
--n, --show-number::
+-n::
+--show-number::
        Show line number in the original commit (Default: off).
 
 -s::
        Suppress author name and timestamp from the output.
 
+-w::
+       Ignore whitespace when comparing parent's version and
+       child's to find where the lines came from.
+
+
 THE PORCELAIN FORMAT
 --------------------
 
@@ -93,7 +100,7 @@ header elements later.
 SPECIFYING RANGES
 -----------------
 
-Unlike `git-blame` and `git-annotate` in older git, the extent
+Unlike 'git-blame' and 'git-annotate' in older git, the extent
 of annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision
 ranges.  When you are interested in finding the origin for
 ll. 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use `-L` option like these
@@ -111,7 +118,7 @@ would limit the annotation to the body of `hello` subroutine.
 
 When you are not interested in changes older than the version
 v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision
-range specifiers  similar to `git-rev-list`:
+range specifiers  similar to 'git-rev-list':
 
        git blame v2.6.18.. -- foo
        git blame --since=3.weeks -- foo
@@ -179,12 +186,12 @@ commit commentary), a blame viewer won't ever care.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-gitlink:git-annotate[1]
+linkgit:git-annotate[1]
 
 AUTHOR
 ------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite