From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:05:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060906180514.698c9cba.tihirvon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FEE0BB.2060601@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> I moved a bunch of SATA drivers in the Linux kernel from drivers/scsi to
> drivers/ata.
>
> When I tried to look at the past history of a file using
> git-whatchanged, post-rename, it only shows the history from HEAD to the
> point of rename. Everything prior to the rename is lost.
>
> I also tried git-whatchanged on the old path, but that produces an error.
Try "git log -- old/path/...". Path limiting works without "--" only if
the path exists.
--
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-06 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 14:52 file rename causes history to disappear Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 15:05 ` Timo Hirvonen [this message]
2006-09-06 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-06 21:45 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-09-07 0:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07 10:16 ` Alex Riesen
2006-09-06 17:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 18:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 23:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-06 19:25 ` Jakub Narebski
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