From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] MFD for v3.19
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:59:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141210095949.GA17623@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzSeGqDMMmf5qh17aKdCwjhZo0pbbub9QWpHWU3i4jwEw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:44:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> So when you do "git log" with a pathname specifier, git obviously no
> longer shows you all the history. In particular, it shows you the
> relevant history for just that file. And by "relevant", it not only
> skips commits that don't change the file, but it also does merge
> simplification: if it hits a merge, and all changes to the file came
> from one side of the merge, it will ignore the other side.
Thanks for the explanation.
Johan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-10 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-08 12:00 [GIT PULL] MFD for v3.19 Lee Jones
2014-12-09 4:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-09 10:00 ` Johan Hovold
2014-12-09 20:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-10 9:55 ` Lee Jones
2014-12-10 9:59 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
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