From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: file rename causes history to disappear Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:52:43 -0400 Message-ID: <44FEE0BB.2060601@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 06 16:53:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKylm-0005dd-6x for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:52:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751207AbWIFOwr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:52:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751208AbWIFOwr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:52:47 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:18393 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751207AbWIFOwp (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:52:45 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-190-194-075.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.194.75] helo=[10.10.10.99]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.62 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1GKylg-0001pX-B9 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:52:44 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) To: Git Mailing List X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. [jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ rpm -q git-core git-core-1.4.1-1.fc5 Repository ("upstream" branch): git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git