From: Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:45:07 GMT
Subject: Re: history of a renamed file
Message-ID: <480F3D63.1040809@melosgmbh.de>
In-Reply-To: <m3y774putc.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski schrieb:
> Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Try --follow option, see git-log(1), although I'm not sure if gitk
> supports it (it should).
Works, thank you!

-- 
Christoph Duelli