From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:04:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Git log can not show history before rename
Message-ID: <20090131070418.GB3033@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200901302252.18051.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52:13PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> 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)

Related (but also slow and hacky :) ), it is sometimes nice to see not
the whole history of a file, but all of the commits, in the usual log
order, that ended up affecting the outcome of a set of content (so not
any commits whose work was later overwritten). I posted a short script
for it a while back:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99278

-Peff