RE: Git log follow question

From: Albert Krawczyk <albert@burgmann.anu.edu.au>
Date: May 14, 2010, 22:39 UTC
Message-ID: <004001caf3b6$4f1082c0$ed318840$@burgmann.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <22729_1273851106_4BED6CE2_22729_6897_1_alpine.LFD.2.00.1005140827250.3711@i5.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

Thank you everybody for your replies.

I believe that this functionality would be useful; however, sadly my C skills are non-existent so I don't even know how to start looking at this problem.

I don't suppose there are other developers on here that would be interested in having a look at this functionality?

Thanks again, Albert

-----Original Message-----
From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf
Of Linus Torvalds
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2010 1:29 AM
To: Martin Langhoff
Cc: Jeff King; Albert Krawczyk; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git log follow question

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 
> The use case for this is: "Where the hell does this WTF-worthy 
> function come from, in this WTF-esque old codebase I just inherited?"

Umm. And git does that better than anything else.

"git log --follow" works fine. As does "git blame -C".

It's just that gitk does not, because it wants to show the graph.

Anyway, if you feel strongly about it, and really want "gitk --follow", you really need to do it yourself. I gave you some pointers. I personally don't think it's worth it.

		Linus
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