Re: git-log --full-history renamed-file

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

If I remember correctly it had somewhat unfortunate timing, as it
was around changes in the same area.

By the way, while it is fairly easy to follow one file, it is hard
to follow directory or glob... and there is a trouble that one file
might come from two files (as concatenation for example; but I don't
think git can detect it with default values of rename detection
heuristics). 

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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