From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:05:26 GMT
Subject: Re: history of a renamed file
Message-ID: <20080423140526.GC3291@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <m3y774putc.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote (2008-04-23 06:25 -0700):

> Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de> writes:
> 
> > Is it possible (ideally with gitk) to view the complete history of
> > what is now new/location/x.c *including* the history of changes that
> > occurred when it stil was some/path/x.c?

> Try --follow option, see git-log(1), although I'm not sure if gitk
> supports it (it should).

gitk certainly accepts '--follow' but the option does not work as
expected. For example try

  gitk --follow -- utf8.c

in the Git repository and get surprised. :-)

I noticed the problem two weeks ago and Adam Simpkins elaborated it
a bit. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/79008