From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:05:14 GMT
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Message-ID: <20060906180514.698c9cba.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44FEE0BB.2060601@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> I moved a bunch of SATA drivers in the Linux kernel from drivers/scsi to 
> drivers/ata.
> 
> When I tried to look at the past history of a file using 
> git-whatchanged, post-rename, it only shows the history from HEAD to the 
> point of rename.  Everything prior to the rename is lost.
> 
> I also tried git-whatchanged on the old path, but that produces an error.

Try "git log -- old/path/...".  Path limiting works without "--" only if
the path exists.

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