From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: git-log --follow? Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:44:39 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20070704203541.GA13286@artemis.corp> <7vzm22vyin.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vsl7uvx8v.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 12 12:44:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8wAD-0003vq-0y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:44:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760860AbXGLKop (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:44:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760329AbXGLKop (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:44:45 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:50128 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1760068AbXGLKoo (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:44:44 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2007 10:44:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 12 Jul 2007 12:44:43 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Bmvh59kzBNqsG14FpYTlyugK0U8nGR2FgABA8l7 TFLnPjigLbVvmL X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <7vsl7uvx8v.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The message I am following up is a patch to unpack-trees.c, whose basic > code structure is Daniel's work, so I wanted to CC him and the easiest > way to look his address up was to run git-log on it. > > Not so. > > [...] > > "git log -- unpack-trees.c" would not follow into read-tree.c, but I > thought "git log --follow -- unpack-trees.c" is supposed to; I tried it > for the first time, but it does not seem to work as well as I hoped. Your lesson as to why following renames is not as useful as some might want to make us believe is duly noted; will use it as back reference should I have to defend that view again. However, I have to wonder why you did not solve your problem this way: git log --author=Daniel Ciao, Dscho