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On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 16:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But trying to be clever while building this up is just crazy talk. When
> diff-tree prints out the changes, it has no way of knowing what the
> context around it was - it doesn't know about merges far away, and it
> _shouldn't_ know.

Isn't that what I suggested? Start with full history, mark the
'interesting' commits which touch the file(s) in question, then prune.

-- 
dwmw2