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Re: log -S with evil merges

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 12, 2010, 06:12 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> The more logical
>
>  ; git log --oneline -c -S'UE_ALWAYS' --follow builtin/reflog.c
>
> does not work --- it mentions _all_ merges.  Why?

I don't think --follow, which is merely a checkbox item, is friendly to most other git features. Does it even show diff with the corresponding file at the commit where filename is changed?

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