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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git log - filter missing changesets
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:58:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060817085830.GD2630@mellanox.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7j17u4zw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Quoting r. Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
> Subject: Re: git log - filter missing changesets
> 
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:
> 
> > Hi!
> > git log with -- parameter seems to sometimes miss changesets that
> > affect a specific directory:
> > ...
> > what gives?
> 
> Most likely history simplification threw away the entire side
> branch.
> 
> This is getting to be a FAQ I suspect.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/21633
> 
> 

Yes, --full-history helps. Thanks!
I'm still not sure *when* does this simplification happen -
the changes that got hidden do not add/remove any files - but oh well.

BTW, --full-history does not seem to be documented on git-rev-list(1)
man page.

-- 
MST

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-17  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-17  8:25 git log - filter missing changesets Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-08-17  8:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-17  8:58   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]

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