Re: Can git log <file> follow log of its origins?

From: Max Pollard <ajaxsupremo@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2008, 21:40 UTC
Message-ID: <743519.95328.qm@web45916.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6g0mip2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

--- Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Max Pollard writes:
> 
> > ...  So -C -C is the answer, with --name-status or --stat to
> > actually show the result.
> 
> The real "answer" part in that example is not -C -C.  Obviously,
> you would need double-C aka --find-copies-harder, because you
> did not change a.txt when creating b.txt, so it is still needed.
> 
> But the essential part of the answer is "not giving b.txt as the
> pathspec, so that whatever _other_ file that could have been
> copied into it is still visible when the command works".
> 
> If you say "git log --name-status -C -C -- b.txt", you would be
> back to square one.

Aha, point taken.  In this case, looks like I can do:

    $ git log -C -C --full-diff --name-status/--stat/--summary -- b.txt

as Sean has suggested to get the copy information back. Or are you saying that even with "--full-diff" I can lose copy information in some cases?

MP

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