Re: [Possible GIT Bug]

From: Eckhard Maaß <eckhard.s.maass@googlemail.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2018, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20180910173512.GA22152@esm>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqin3duypt.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:03:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Show 8 quoted lines

> It is neither but if I have to pick one between the two, it is much
> closer to the former than the latter.  The primary source of this is
> that we have only *one* pathspec given to the diff machinery, but in
> order to implement your ideal "find harder", you'd need *two*.  That
> is, one set of paths for which you are interested in their origin,
> and the other set that you allow the machinery to consider as possible
> origins.  Since we can only give one pathspec machinery, that one
> pathspec is used to specify both of these sets.

How does tihs compare to `--follow`? With that knob active the machinery indeed uses the whole repository for finding renames and/or copies. Is this the only exception then?

Take care, Eckhard