From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eckhard Maass Subject: -B option of git log Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:44:00 +0100 Message-ID: <5126BF50.6020500@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 22 01:44:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U8gka-0000F1-Qw for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:44:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755210Ab3BVAoG (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:44:06 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:51604 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753894Ab3BVAoE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:44:04 -0500 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.29]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MfCFw-1UWNSd2je6-00OqIU for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:44:01 +0100 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2013 00:44:01 -0000 Received: from 178-27-249-208-dynip.superkabel.de (EHLO [192.168.0.104]) [178.27.249.208] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 22 Feb 2013 01:44:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1609611 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX191ZgxXJOh1ZnvpT1giV42P7piEYcFPEyyJJunZmf EUVpSpuPzI9XBt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, As far as I understand the documentation, -B of git-log should help correct rename detection. But it does not seem to work for me. Let me get a setup: $> git init . Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/t2/.git/ $> echo 'Lorem ipsum doler sed. Lorem ipsum doler sed. Lorem ipsum doler sed. Lorem ipsum doler sed.' > a $> git add a $> git commit -m 'Init.' [master (root-commit) b78205c] Init. 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 a $> mv a b $> echo 'new' > a $> git add -A . $> git commit -m '2nd.' [master a30ca49] 2nd. 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 b Now, I get the following: $> git log --oneline -B20%/80% -M20% --name-status a30ca49 2nd. M a A b b78205c Init. A a But I would expect that git-log shows me a rename from a to b and a new a. What is my misunderstanding? (And I tried it also with files with a couple of lines.) SEcki