lost history with directory move?
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- Perrin Meyer <perrinmeyer@yahoo.com>
- Date
- Jan 29, 2008, 01:22 UTC
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- <66024.57523.qm@web52812.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
I'm confused about history and directory renaming. Where did my history go?
I have a git repo with a doc/ directory, which I renamed to Documentation/
$ mv doc/ Documentation/ $ git commit -a where I see a lot of deletes $ git push
$ git add Documentation/ $ git commit -a and I see that a all my doc files added, as expected. $ git push
But when I got to look at the history of the Documentation/ directory
$ git log Documentation/
I only see one commit message
even if I do a
$ git log --follow Documentation/
I don't see my history.
Even if I try a single file
$ git log --follow README
I only see the single rename commit, not any history.
What did I do wrong?
I'm guessing, in hindsight, that I probably should have done
$ mv doc/ Documentation/ $ git add Documentation/ $ git commit -a
but is there anyway to get my history back given what I have done?
Thanks for the help. I'm using git version 1.5.3.8
Perrin Meyer