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From: Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proper tracking of copies in git log and others
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:53:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2ure0$j73$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4F8258.5070701@trn.iki.fi>

Lasse Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Getting full history of a file, including that beyond copies, is rather 
> important and apparently not currently supported by git tools.

You seem to be right. I'm quite new to Git so don't know all the 
commands, but this is what I came up with..


$ git log --raw 2009/exercise2/description.txt
commit edfd954572e844b05a7489bcaa149afb679bc1f6
Author: Graeme Geldenhuys <graeme@mastermaths.co.za>
Date:   Tue Jul 7 08:44:20 2009 +0200

     Course 2009 recycled entirely from 2008

:000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A  2009/exercise2/description.txt


We then take note of the  ^^^^^^^  value and generate the following
command.


$ git log -C --raw | grep e965047
:000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A	2009/exercise2/description.txt
:000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A	2008/exercise2/description.txt
:000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A	2007/exercise1/description.txt


Now now shows you the history of the file as it was copied from one
directory to another.


Regards,
   - Graeme -

-- 
fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-04 16:24 Proper tracking of copies in git log and others Lasse Kärkkäinen
2009-07-04 18:31 ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-07-14 12:19   ` Lasse Kärkkäinen
2009-07-07  6:53 ` Graeme Geldenhuys [this message]
2009-07-07 13:48 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-07-07 14:59   ` Avery Pennarun

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