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Re: Bogus error from git log --full-diff

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KTKonstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
Date
Jun 19, 2020, 16:14 UTC
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19.06.2020, 18:59, "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@linux-m68k.org>:
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> If you have log.follow=true, then git log --full-diff doesn't work any
> more, giving a bogus error:
>
> $ ./git -c log.follow=true log --full-diff .
> fatal: --follow requires exactly one pathspec

I've reported this issue in February on this very list and didn't get any reaction from developers. Seems like it's not considered to be a bug.

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Regards,
Konstantin
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