From df83d5cf6759541d6f3d94b29a91fd0d3e5dbcd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:25:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] blame-options.txt: explain that -L <start> and <end> are
 optional

The ability to omit either end of the -L range is a handy but
undocumented shortcut, and is thus not easily discovered. Fix this
shortcoming.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/blame-options.txt | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index 624b3532a2..4e55b1564e 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@
 
 -L <start>,<end>::
 -L :<regex>::
-	Annotate only the given line range.  <start> and <end> can take
-	one of these forms:
+	Annotate only the given line range.  <start> and <end> are optional.
+	``-L <start>'' or ``-L <start>,'' spans from <start> to end of file.
+	``-L ,<end>'' spans from start of file to <end>.
++
+<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
 
 include::line-range-format.txt[]
 
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