From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:20:33 GMT
Subject: Re: --follow is ignored when used with --reverse
Message-ID: <51D2B781.7000906@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130524012324.295dec77@hugo.daonet.home>

Am 5/24/2013 1:23, schrieb Alois Mahdal:
> ...query for when the file was really added,
> which I was trying to achieve with
> 
>     $ git -1 --reverse --follow several_times_renamed_file

Assuming you meant 'git log -1 ...' or similar. It won't do what you think
it would do because:

* -1 is a revision traversal options.

* --reverse is an "output" option.

This means: First, revisions are collected, at which point -1 is honored.
Second, the revisions found are listed in --reverse order.

When you have only one revision in the list, the output is the same with
or without --reverse ;-)

-- Hannes