Re: git log fails to show all changes for a file

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Jul 14, 2015, 07:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20150714074508.GE1451@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20150714073035.GA22707@aepfle.de>

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 09:30:35AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:

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> 
> I wonder why this command fails to show all commits that modify a given
> function: 
> 
>   linux.git $ git log -p -M --stat -- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
> 
> With commit 1f656ff3fdddc2f59649cc84b633b799908f1f7b init_vp_index() has
> "const uuid_le *type_guid" already. And somewhere between commit
> d3ba720dd58cdf6630fee4b89482c465d5ad0d0f and the one above the "const"
> was added. But git log does not show this commit.
> 
> Why is that so, and whats the command to really show all and every change?

It was added in an evil merge (f9da455b93f6ba076935b4ef4589f61e529ae046), try:

	git log -p -M --stat --cc -- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c