From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] log: add log.follow config option Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:58:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1436377321-8495-1-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com> <1436463511.4542.27.camel@twopensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Matthieu Moy , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Turner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 09 19:58:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDG5m-0005oU-1D for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:58:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754204AbbGIR6W (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:58:22 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com ([209.85.213.175]:38256 "EHLO mail-ig0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754180AbbGIR6H (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:58:07 -0400 Received: by igrv9 with SMTP id v9so199439270igr.1 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:58:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=d5Rr6SaDBvQVl8u7z/z5f0JxUHzcvvNg2GQdUZqEmf8=; b=t87VdcA0/4r3zSg0IKl728psxdS1NP2Dr36cYBLE4bGN79pFCNfFeNqhJ+nSLpi2Z4 +LHZdYc+gT8qeIz17t9Oz1fa9ee8jiYJ24IKfFkTfPi3bj0mO+jCewhfvQq6ce/1dUUK DgM05JrKGqM+loGNfuaN8i7POuQWINQT6aUuen/PeBA8ANOTIMiPcf3gWZZj6Mlp/HTZ NiBgD8wnzGy9fu0jTtlX3ONpglErgSrpaRNRlCBw+s5+nVeFpA8BhNiD0grbHaXxe60m fTTujPlw5Javab27DgmE3zMW4gBX9JOAZNRRYo2B35rTBZaulQWayE1cofesvfKoG2OR nWMA== X-Received: by 10.50.4.66 with SMTP id i2mr102723064igi.40.1436464686427; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2620:0:10c2:1012:647a:d824:a8a3:7bb0]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b140sm4670692ioe.9.2015.07.09.10.58.05 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:58:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1436463511.4542.27.camel@twopensource.com> (David Turner's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Turner writes: > On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 10:23 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> If I were David and sending this v4 patch, it would have looked like >> this. >> >> -- >8 -- >> >> From: David Turner >> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 21:29:34 -0400 >> Subject: [PATCH v4] log: add "log.follow" configuration variable >> >> People who work on projects with mostly linear history with frequent >> whole file renames may want to always use "git log --follow" when >> inspecting the life of the content that live in a single path. >> >> Teach the command to behave as if "--follow" was given from the >> command line when log.follow configuration variable is set *and* >> there is one (and only one) path on the command line. > > > Thanks. That version is much better. No, thank _you_; we should be thanking you for helping us improve the system ;-)