From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:52:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Git log can not show history before rename
Message-ID: <200901302252.18051.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0901300449x7f6a2f5bq920068b46994c92e@mail.gmail.com>

Santi Béjar wrote:
> 2009/1/30 Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>:
> > Does it conflict with --parents?
> > When I use --follow and --parents together,  parents can't rewrite.
> > without --follow, parent can rewrite.
> 
> I think there are no obvious reasons to conflict and they could work
> together, but as Jakub just said, --follow is quite new and only works
> well with simple history and simple cases.

You might find this useful:

  $ git config alias.renames
  !GIT_PAGER="grep -v '^$' | sort -u" git --paginate log --follow --name-only --pretty=format:"" --

Slow and hacky, but works nice enough in practice.  The intended use
case is like

  $ gitk --complicated-rev-options $(git renames git-svn.perl)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch