From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Victor <__vic@ngs.ru>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of git log --follow
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:16:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhpf9m10.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-54136765@mx30.intranet.ru>
On Thu, Mar 28 2019, Victor wrote:
> Hello.
>
> $ git log include/__vic/mutex.h
> commit 9429293f8f8fb0819c77cf1f723567f6edc8fb6a
> Merge: 96dd9a2 f484f4e
> Author: __vic <__vic@ngs.ru>
> Date: 2017-12-13 10:41:32 +0300
>
> Merge branch 'generic' into posix
>
> commit f484f4e8aae32041ba56bdce12d1efd8491e94d5
> Merge: 86b848a b9bbbe6
> Author: __vic <__vic@ngs.ru>
> Date: 2017-12-12 17:35:10 +0300
>
> waitable_event, thread, mutex
> $ git log --follow include/__vic/mutex.h
> $
>
> Why --follow makes git produce truncated history for file that wasn't
> renamed?
>
> My repository is available here
> https://github.com/2underscores-vic/__vic
I just briefly looked at this. It's because all changes to the relevant
file are in merge commits. If you run the "log" with "--stat" you'll see
no output.
Something in the --follow machinery takes the same shortcut on merges
and doesn't consider them.
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2019-03-28 12:10 Strange behaviour of git log --follow Victor
2019-03-28 13:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2019-03-28 13:32 ` Victor
2019-03-28 13:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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