From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:48:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20050525094841.GA24172@vrfy.org> References: <20050524184612.GA23637@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20050524202846.GC25606@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20050524213102.GB19180@vrfy.org> <7vu0ksoxg4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List , David Greaves X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 25 11:47:38 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DasU7-0002R1-HI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:47:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262024AbVEYJs5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2005 05:48:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262122AbVEYJs5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2005 05:48:57 -0400 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:57493 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262024AbVEYJsq (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2005 05:48:46 -0400 Received: by soundwarez.org (Postfix, from userid 2702) id E37C439ABB; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:48:41 +0200 (CEST) To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vu0ksoxg4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:23:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I was browsing www.kernel.org/git and noticed that it shows > only files that exist at the tip. How do I get history of a > file that does not exist anymore at the tip? > > For example, diff-helper.c history is (quite correctly) > truncated somewhere close to where diff-tree-helper.c was > renamed to it. From the commit log, humans can easily tell that > it used to be called diff-tree-helper.c. I could not find an > easy way to see the history of diff-tree-helper.c file. I will add a search function when the git binaries on kernel.org get an update. Currently it's cogito-0.10. > On probably a bit different topic (but I do not know who is > updating the copy on www.kernel.org, sorry). Could somebody > update http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ to > rename git-diff-tree-helper to git-diff-helper please? > git.git/Documentation/git.txt has been corrected quite some > time ago [*1*] and I do not know how the updates are propagated > to the web version of the documentation; is it a manual process? David Greaves can write to that directory. David? Kay