From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:34:28 GMT
Subject: Re: rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed
Message-ID: <20100724193428.GA4491@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=R2-=TNXyFq4OCo6LsYOMNgVga+=6QrAfCoHRx@mail.gmail.com>

Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>>  $ git log --oneline -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk
>>  $ git log --oneline --follow -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk
>>  62ba514 Move gitk to its own subdirectory
>>  $ git log --oneline -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk gitk
>>  207ad7b gitk: Set the font for all listbox widgets
>>  $
>
> This is a bug in git log --follow

The first one is not.

> FWIW, I previously tracked the bug down to the fact that it doesn't
> track file renames that happen during a merge commit, which is what
> subtree merge produces.  I don't have the time or knowledge required
> to fix it.

Another pointer for interested people:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150727/focus=150796

I prefer to work without --follow, anyway. :)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan