From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:21:57 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle Message-ID: <200610212121.58245.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > We've discussed adding a "--follow" flag to tell "git log" to consider the > argument to not be a "pathname filter", but a "individual file" kind of > thing, and I think there was even a patch for it, but I suspect it hasn't > been a big issue, probably partly because you get rather used to the > "pathname filter" approach fairly quickly. If I remember correctly, the patch implementing --follow was fairly intrusive, and was unfortunate in that it was posted during changes in diffcore. Lack of --follow is not a big issue because you can do this "by hand"; you can use git-diff-tree -M at the end of file history to check if [git considers] it was moved from somewhere. During discussion we have agreed that we would like to have both --follow rename following limiter and static path limiter (and that it would be nice to extend static path limiter to include globs). -- Jakub Narebski Poland