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Re: ident hash usage question

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ESEugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2009, 22:19 UTC
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>> How is that? It seams to me that git log <path> will show only commits
>> where <path> was changed/committed? Considering the fact that I've got
>> the initial path from the blob, i should get the exact commit history
>> (or last commit in my example) for the file(s) (Files if renaming
>> occurred without content change).
>
> The blob is present in each commit since it was introduced. Except
> when your project contains only that one blob, isn't the state of
> the other parts of an interest?
>

I would question this statement. It seems to me that hash of the file content is logged only for the commit when it was touched. Therefore there is very limited amount of actual commits where the same hash can be met.

Thanks, Eugene

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