Bert fixed the code to work like this, in r1661208. I committed help text, much like I pasted here, in r1661211.
- Julian I (Julian Foad) wrote: > I (Julian Foad) wrote: >> issue #4565 "reverse blame, aka kidney blame" >> [...] I want to see: >> >> * The first revision in which the line was changed (or deleted) after >> r1400000. > > The following help text explains how I think it should behave: > > [[[ > blame (praise, annotate, ann): Show when each line of a file was last (or > next) changed. > usage: blame [-rM:N] TARGET[@REV]... > > Annotate each line of a file with the revision number and author of the > last change (or optionally the next change) to that line. > > With no revision range (same as -r0:REV), or with '-r M:N' where M > < N, > annotate each line that is present in revision N of the file, > with the last revision at or before rN that changed or added the line, > looking back no further than rM. > > With a reverse revision range '-r M:N' where M > N, > annotate each line that is present in revision N of the file, > with the NEXT revision AFTER rN that changed or DELETED the line, > looking forward no further than rM. > > Write the annotated result to standard output. > > If specified, REV determines in which revision the target is first > looked up. > ]]] > > Makes sense? > > - Julian >

