From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:19:43 GMT
Subject: Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update
Message-ID: <1187101183.12828.191.camel@chaos>
In-Reply-To: <20070814111828.GA15399@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 13:18 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2007-08-14 13:06:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:50 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> >
> > > The result is exactly the same. git-mv is just a convenience.
> >
> > Fair enough, but it still does not solve my initial problem of
> > keeping the history of B (former A) intact, while creating a new A
> > which is necessary to compile the tree, simply because I can not
> > change #include <A> to #include <B> for various reasons.
> 
> Have you tried running blame with -C, or -C -C? That will make it try
> harder to identify lines originating from other files.

Does not help. Strange enough it results in

# git blame include/B

b4062b16 include/A (Joe Hacker      2007-08-14 10:52:28 +0200  1) #ifndef _A_H_
b4062b16 include/A (Joe Hacker      2007-08-14 10:52:28 +0200  2) #define _A_H_
b4062b16 include/A (Joe Hacker      2007-08-14 10:52:28 +0200  3) 
b4062b16 include/A (Joe Hacker      2007-08-14 10:52:28 +0200  4) #define TEST_1 1
f098c4ad include/B (Thomas Gleixner 2007-08-14 16:01:05 +0200  5) #define TEST_2 2
f098c4ad include/B (Thomas Gleixner 2007-08-14 16:01:05 +0200  6) 
f098c4ad include/B (Thomas Gleixner 2007-08-14 16:01:05 +0200  7) #endif

	tglx