Re: git/cscope with x86 merge

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On 10/15/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >
> > after the merge:
> > 1. git
> > git log -p arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
> > only can show the log from the merge..., and can not get log before
> > merge for x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c
> > Any git update for that?
>
> Use
>
>         git log -p --follow arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
>
> where the "--follow" tells git to follow renames.
>
> And, of course, "git blame -C" will follow renames and copying of code
> across file boundaries too.
>
> NOTE! In both cases you may actually have to tell git to not limit its
> rename detection when it sees lots of files. You can do that
> once-and-for-all with
>
>         git config --global diff.renamelimit 0
>
> which should take care of it (although it seems that due to unlucky
> timing, the current stable git release does not honor the renamelimit for
> merging, so if you actually need to have git merge data across a rename,
> you should use the current "master" branch of git. Junio is sadly away
> for two weeks right now)

git log -p --follow arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S

can not trace to arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

YH