Re: Rename detection at git log

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Monday 2006 November 20 05:57, Alexander Litvinov wrote:
>>
>>> > PAGER=cat git log -M -C --pretty=oneline b/a
>>
>> I've come across this too.  Personally I'm not sure what use "-C" is.  From 
>> the manpage, man git-diff-files (no, this isn't the place I'd look either).
> 
> The real issue here is because the b/a on the command line
> applies on the input-side, and does not act as the output
> filter.  This comes from _very_ early design decision and if you
> dig the list archive you will see Linus and I arguing about
> diffcore-pathspec (which later died off).
> 
> What it means is that "git log" will look at path that matches
> b/a (that means b/a/c and b/a/d are looked at, if b/a were a
> directory).  Since path "a" which is what the file was
> originally at is not something the pattern b/a matches, there is
> no way b/a is noticed as a rename from a.
> 
> I've been meaning to resurrect Fredrik's --single-follow=path
> patch but haven't had time to recently, with all the other
> interesting discussion happening on the list.

But for now, you can use

  PAGER= git log -M -C -- b/a a

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Jakub Narebski
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