diff --git a/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/README.adoc b/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/README.adoc
index ca5718b..6dfbe75 100644
--- a/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/README.adoc
+++ b/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/README.adoc
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ This is only effective if `diff` option is given.
 - `other` is the other commit to be compared with.
 This is only effective if `diff` option is given.
 
+- `lines` get the specified lines from the path.
+It uses the same parser as the line specifier from link:https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/verbatim/highlight-lines/[highlighting select lines] so the syntax is the same.
+
 There's also a couple of link:https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/attributes/options/[options] for this component.
 You can give the following options through `opts` attribute (i.e., `opts="diff,reverse"`).
 
@@ -61,3 +64,5 @@ The following examples assume that `doccontentref` points to `content/posts/samp
 - `include::git:{doccontentref}[opts="diff", path=Gemfile]` should include a diff of the Gemfile from `content/posts/sample` branch (assuming that Gemfile has changed).
 
 - `include::git:non-existing-rev[opts="diff"]` should result in a warning with the non-existing revision.
+
+- `include::git:{doccontentref}[path=README, lines=2..5]` should transclude the README file from lines 2-5.
diff --git a/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/extension.rb b/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/extension.rb
index fee79ab..0ea2040 100644
--- a/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/extension.rb
+++ b/lib/asciidoctor/git-blob-include-processor/extension.rb
@@ -41,7 +41,19 @@ class GitBlobIncludeProcessor < Asciidoctor::Extensions::IncludeProcessor
                         git_object.target.tree.path attrs['path']
                       end
 
-        reader.push_include repo.lookup(inner_entry[:oid]).content
+        content = repo.lookup(inner_entry[:oid]).content
+
+        if attrs.key? 'lines'
+          content_lines = content.lines
+          new_content = +''
+          doc.resolve_lines_to_highlight(content, attrs['lines']).each do |line_no|
+            new_content << content_lines.at(line_no - 1)
+          end
+
+          content = new_content
+        end
+
+        reader.push_include content
       end
     rescue StandardError => e
       reader.push_include "Unresolved directive for '#{target}' with the following error:\n#{e}"