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From: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
To: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git log can not show history before rename
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:29:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0901300329y53e46d91xda75799ce1244ddd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1976ea660901300323n384d3650s3bb5a575accb65d1@mail.gmail.com>

2009/1/30 Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>:
> mkdir tt3
> cd tt3
> git init-db

"git init"

> touch a.c
> git add a.c
> git commit -a -m "test1"
>
> git mv a.c b.c
> git commit -a -m "rename"
>
> modify b.c
> git commit -a -m "test2"
>
> git log -C -M -- b.c
[...]
> I can't get history before rename.

You asked to restrict the search to the b.c path.

You want:

git log --follow -- b.c

Man git-log:
       --follow
           Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames.

HTH,
Santi
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30 11:23 Git log can not show history before rename Frank Li
2009-01-30 11:29 ` Santi Béjar [this message]
2009-01-30 12:25   ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-30 12:29   ` Frank Li
2009-01-30 12:49     ` Santi Béjar
2009-01-30 21:52       ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-31  7:04         ` Jeff King
2009-01-30 17:17     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30 17:23       ` Linus Torvalds

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