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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: history of a renamed file
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:05:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080423140526.GC3291@mithlond.arda.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y774putc.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote (2008-04-23 06:25 -0700):

> Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de> writes:
> 
> > Is it possible (ideally with gitk) to view the complete history of
> > what is now new/location/x.c *including* the history of changes that
> > occurred when it stil was some/path/x.c?

> Try --follow option, see git-log(1), although I'm not sure if gitk
> supports it (it should).

gitk certainly accepts '--follow' but the option does not work as
expected. For example try

  gitk --follow -- utf8.c

in the Git repository and get surprised. :-)

I noticed the problem two weeks ago and Adam Simpkins elaborated it
a bit. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/79008

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23 13:02 history of a renamed file Christoph Duelli
2008-04-23 13:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-23 13:45   ` Christoph Duelli
2008-04-23 14:05   ` Teemu Likonen [this message]

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