From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:51:43 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist
Message-ID: <20050525125143.GB1481@vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050525123544.GA1420@vrfy.org>

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 02:35:44PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:23:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I was browsing www.kernel.org/git and noticed that it shows
> > only files that exist at the tip.  How do I get history of a
> > file that does not exist anymore at the tip?
> > 
> > For example, diff-helper.c history is (quite correctly)
> > truncated somewhere close to where diff-tree-helper.c was
> > renamed to it.  From the commit log, humans can easily tell that
> > it used to be called diff-tree-helper.c.  I could not find an
> > easy way to see the history of diff-tree-helper.c file.
> 
> If git-diff-tree is given the -M:
>   git-rev-list HEAD | git-diff-tree -r -M --stdin diff-helper.c
> 
> and it would print:
>   99665af5c0be0fe4319b39183e84917993153576 (from 13ab4462d2aefb252d7c916bd537151856b7c967)
>   :100644 100644 51bb658be4f73c00016b4ecb82f09d30941998a4 51bb658be4f73c00016b4ecb82f09d30941998a4 R10000 diff-tree-helper.c diff-helper.c
                                                                                                      ^^^^^
Btw:
Can we add a leading '0' to have 3-digit values every time? It's pretty
stupid to get the '100' out ot that field instead of '10'. :)

Kay