Re: [PATCH v4] log: add log.follow config option

> David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 10:23 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> If I were David and sending this v4 patch, it would have looked like
> >> this.
> >>
> >> -- >8 --
> >> 
> >> From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 21:29:34 -0400
> >> Subject: [PATCH v4] log: add "log.follow" configuration variable
> >> 
> >> People who work on projects with mostly linear history with frequent
> >> whole file renames may want to always use "git log --follow" when
> >> inspecting the life of the content that live in a single path.
> >> 
> >> Teach the command to behave as if "--follow" was given from the
> >> command line when log.follow configuration variable is set *and*
> >> there is one (and only one) path on the command line.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.  That version is much better.
> 
> No, thank _you_; we should be thanking you for helping us improve
> the system ;-)