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

From: Max Pollard <ajaxsupremo@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2008, 21:07 UTC
Message-ID: <790332.92389.qm@web45907.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v63xco0w5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

--- Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Max Pollard writes:
> 
> > I only see the log corresponding to the 2nd commit (v1.5.3.5).
> 
> That is what you are asking "git log" to show.  "git log b.txt"
> means "please simplify the history by throwing away commits that
> do not have changes to paths that match b.txt, and then show the
> resulting log with the change pertaining to that path".  The
> first commit does not change a path called b.txt (in other
> words, "git show --stat HEAD^" will not give diffstat for "b.txt"),
> so that commit is not shown.
> 
> $ git log --pretty=oneline --name-status -C -C
>

Got it - many thanks. So -C -C is the answer, with --name-status or --stat to actually show the result. From the code, a status like Cxxx appears to contain the "similarity percentage" in xxx; so that C100 would mean an exact copy...

MP

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