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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-log --full-history renamed-file
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:55:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8xe53ok5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703091339190.10832@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:20:55 -0800 (PST)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> There were patches floating around for an option called "--follow" to "git 
> log", that would actually follow the renames. 
>
> I don't remember what happened to them - I suspect the implementation 
> wasn't up to snuff. But the *concept* is definitely right.

Yes, the concept is good.  It was from Fredrik of
merge-recursive fame.

The patch was not _bad_, but it looked a bit too intrusive back
then and scared me away.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-10  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-09 21:30 git-log --full-history renamed-file Jim Meyering
2007-03-09 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-10  0:55   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-03-10  1:40     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-03-10  2:14       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-10  2:14       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-10  6:14       ` Andy Parkins
2007-03-10  1:59   ` Junio C Hamano

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