From: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:16:13 GMT
Subject: blame on a deleted/renamed file
Message-ID: <449c10960908050516k25ef0a92sd8616de29a93ea5f@mail.gmail.com>

Is there no easy way in git to get a blame on a file that has either
been renamed or deleted? I'll step through my thought process, and a
quick google and read of the manpage returned nothing obvious. Here is
the repository in question if it matters:
git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git. I located a particular commit
I was interested using a plain git-blame:
$ git blame scripts/makepkg.sh.in

OK, looks like lines moved around enough that we got stuck here, let's
see what this patch did:
$ git show e19d7da4

OK, it did a move of a bunch of lines into functions that GIT couldn't
quite track:
$ git annotate --follow "scripts/makepkg.in" e19d7da4~1
fatal: cannot stat path 'scripts/makepkg.in': No such file or directory

$ git annotate --follow "scripts/makepkg.sh.in" e19d7da4~1
fatal: no such path scripts/makepkg.sh.in in e19d7da4~1

Help? Or do I need to think about writing some sort of patch for it?
This is the first thing I have seen svn be able to do[1] that git
can't. :)

-Dan

[1] svn annotate http://path/to/repo/path/to/file@2345