From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:16:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git-rev-list bug?
Message-ID: <7vacc0iten.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0603080819i227c637fo@mail.gmail.com>

"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry if this was previously discussed. I ran git-rev-list on a linear
> graph and tried to filter the results by a file name:
>
>   git rev-list since.. path/to/file
>
> but it always shows the child commit of "since" even if it didn't
> touch the file. The same behaviour is for git-log (since it uses
> git-rev-list) but git-whatchanged seems to be fine.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour? The "stg patches" command based on
> git-rev-list used to work fine a few weeks ago but now it is always
> reporting the bottom patch in the stack as modifying a given file.

I can confirm that this is a recent breakage, but since it is
unfortunately my day-job day the more detailed analysis and fix
needs to wait.  Sorry.