From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:55:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-log --full-history renamed-file
Message-ID: <7v8xe53ok5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703091339190.10832@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> There were patches floating around for an option called "--follow" to "git 
> log", that would actually follow the renames. 
>
> I don't remember what happened to them - I suspect the implementation 
> wasn't up to snuff. But the *concept* is definitely right.

Yes, the concept is good.  It was from Fredrik of
merge-recursive fame.

The patch was not _bad_, but it looked a bit too intrusive back
then and scared me away.