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-B option of git log

From
EMEckhard Maass <eckhard.maass@gmx.net>
Date
Feb 22, 2013, 00:44 UTC
Message-ID
<5126BF50.6020500@gmx.net>
Hello,

As far as I understand the documentation, -B of git-log should help correct rename detection. But it does not seem to work for me.

Let me get a setup:
$> git init .
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/t2/.git/
$> echo 'Lorem ipsum doler sed. Lorem ipsum doler sed. Lorem ipsum doler
sed. Lorem ipsum doler sed.' > a
$> git add a
$> git commit -m 'Init.'
[master (root-commit) b78205c] Init.
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 a
$> mv a b
$> echo 'new' > a
$> git add -A .
$> git commit -m '2nd.'
[master a30ca49] 2nd.
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 b
Now, I get the following:

$> git log --oneline -B20%/80% -M20% --name-status a30ca49 2nd. M a A b b78205c Init. A a

But I would expect that git-log shows me a rename from a to b and a new a.

What is my misunderstanding? (And I tried it also with files with a couple of lines.)

SEcki
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