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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Alexander Pepper <pepper@inf.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug?: 'git log --find-copies' doesn't match 'git log --follow <rev> -- path/to/file'
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:38:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110930213841.GA9384@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DBC73B3F-2703-4651-AADA-233A9CC38AFD@inf.fu-berlin.de>

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 05:32:38PM +0200, Alexander Pepper wrote:

> So git log with copy and rename detection on (--find-copies) tells me,
> that the file StopClusterException.java is copied to
> ClusterOperation.java. But If I ask git log for that specific file
> with --follow git claims a copy from Immutable.java to
> ClusterOperation.java!

I think that --follow uses --find-copies-harder. Did you try:

  git log --numstat --find-copies-harder dd4e90f9

? Does it find Immutable.java as the source?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 15:32 Bug?: 'git log --find-copies' doesn't match 'git log --follow <rev> -- path/to/file' Alexander Pepper
2011-09-30 21:38 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-10-02 15:10   ` Alexander Pepper
2011-10-02 15:25     ` Jeff King

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