From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:38:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug?: 'git log --find-copies' doesn't match 'git log --follow <rev> -- path/to/file'
Message-ID: <20110930213841.GA9384@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <DBC73B3F-2703-4651-AADA-233A9CC38AFD@inf.fu-berlin.de>

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 05:32:38PM +0200, Alexander Pepper wrote:

> So git log with copy and rename detection on (--find-copies) tells me,
> that the file StopClusterException.java is copied to
> ClusterOperation.java. But If I ask git log for that specific file
> with --follow git claims a copy from Immutable.java to
> ClusterOperation.java!

I think that --follow uses --find-copies-harder. Did you try:

  git log --numstat --find-copies-harder dd4e90f9

? Does it find Immutable.java as the source?

-Peff