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file rename causes history to disappear

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JGJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date
Sep 6, 2006, 14:52 UTC
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I moved a bunch of SATA drivers in the Linux kernel from drivers/scsi to drivers/ata.

When I tried to look at the past history of a file using git-whatchanged, post-rename, it only shows the history from HEAD to the point of rename. Everything prior to the rename is lost.

I also tried git-whatchanged on the old path, but that produces an error.

[jgarzik@pretzel libata-dev]$ rpm -q git-core git-core-1.4.1-1.fc5

Repository ("upstream" branch): git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git

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