Re: Re: git log -M -- filename is not working?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 12, 2010, 13:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20100512130918.GA20755@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin0E9rd7Ld3exCA5NbGnYhlspUZ93KT1O6Zvzrq@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:06:11PM +0800, Bo Yang wrote:

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> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> wrote:
> >> I really wonder if it would be that hard to just fix the code to follow
> >> several files. [...]
> >
> > That would obviously be a better solution...
> 
> The new line level history browser utility will follow multiple line
> ranges of multiple files and it of course will do this. :) Please wait
> for some days, I will make it possible in this summer.

Yeah, I know there is some overlap with your work. I wonder, though, if it may be desirable for speed reasons to have three levels of limiting:

  1. limit by pathspec (what we have now, very fast)

  2. limit by path with rename following (my patch, slower)

  3. limit to history of arbitrary content (your work, which will
     presumably be even slower still)

Obviously if your (3) can be as fast as my (2), then there is no need for (2).

-Peff