From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:38:05 GMT
Subject: Re: detecting rename->commit->modify->commit
Message-ID: <20080501153804.GC11469@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4819E226.6000404@tikalk.com>

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:30:46PM +0300, Ittay Dror wrote:

> Well, I would have expected git to notice that the file was renamed in  
> one commit and keep tracking changes afterwards.

That's not how git works, and that's not what you asked it to do. You
gave it two states and asked it to diff between them. It never even
looked at the intermediate steps (and that's generally why git is so
fast). If you want to follow the history and look at every commit, then
that is something that _can_ be done, and does get done with things like
"git log --follow". But there is a diff mode currently implemented that
will crawl the history looking for interesting things.

-Peff