From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:54:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vpse85z5n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609061205100.27779@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:06:06 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>> But --follow=<filename> with <pathspec> can be useful, e.g. when <pathspec>
>> is a directory (or, perhaps in the future, glob), which would mean "follow
>> the contents indicated in starting hash by <filename>, and stop following
>> when it falls out outside given <pathspec>, in our case given directory".
>
> Yes, that would indeed make sense. The pathspec ends up being kept as a
> "limiter", and basically tells you what the "context" for following is
> allowed to be.
>
> Color me convinced.
Likewise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-06 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 14:52 file rename causes history to disappear Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 15:05 ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-09-06 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-06 21:45 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-09-07 0:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07 10:16 ` Alex Riesen
2006-09-06 17:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 18:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 23:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-09-06 19:25 ` Jakub Narebski
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