Buggy `git log -- path` behavior
- From
- Matthew DeVore <matvore@pobox.com>
- Date
- Mar 15, 2023, 16:04 UTC
- Message-ID
- <4c02cd71-8bfc-4b6e-9ec0-3d98598a695a@app.fastmail.com>
Hello,
I think the below terminal session demonstrates a bug in git log. Notice the first git log command gives no output. Any thoughts?
~/src$ git clone http://github.com/torvalds/linux ... ~/src$ cd linux ~/src/linux$ git checkout v5.15 ~/src/linux$ cd Documentation/vm ~/src/linux/Documentation/vm$ git log -n2 --name-status --oneline -- pagemap.rst ~/src/linux/Documentation/vm$ git log -n2 --name-status --oneline -- 'pagemap.*' 1ad1335dc586 docs/admin-guide/mm: start moving here files from Documentation/vm D Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst 41ea9dd36b6b docs/vm: pagemap: change document title M Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst ~/src/linux/Documentation/vm$
Thank you, Matthew