From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:44:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.18.2
Message-ID: <46a038f90611161744q6c535218n5b815ef1fc5228b6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061117004930.GC7201@pasky.or.cz>

On 11/17/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

> * cg-log does not follow history across renames anymore; it never really
>   actually worked and was instead causing problems and random error
>   messages. There needs to be git-core support for this funcionality,
>   hacking it with a perl filter is bad design, so I'm not going to fix
>   the filter (but I'd take patches if someone else did ;).

I was looking at the follow renames Perl script last week (hey, I was
bored!) and while I could tell it didn't work, I did get the feeling
that it wasn't an impossible task, at least for the 'explicit paths'
case. For the 'whole tree' and subpath cases it _is_ tricky, and would
be faster to solve within git, but not impossible.

And even then, I am tempted to think that git log could provide some
better hints than it does today when walking the whole tree or
subpaths, so that cg-log or gitk can ask [if relevant] for selective
rename info.

I am curious as to why you see it as bad design...

cheers,