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history of a renamed file

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CDChristoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de>
Date
Apr 23, 2008, 13:02 UTC
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Given a repo that contains a file x.c that got renamed from some/path/x.c to new/location/x.c

Is it possible (ideally with gitk) to view the complete history of what is now new/location/x.c *including* the history of changes that occurred when it stil was some/path/x.c? When I say "gitk new/location/x.c" I get just the changes made starting with the rename. When I call "gitk" and look for the changeset, the rename is detected, though. Therefore I hope that it is somehow possible to obtain the complete file-specific history without truncation at renames.

Any ideas?

Thank you, best regards Christoph

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