From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:54:44 GMT
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Message-ID: <7vpse85z5n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609061205100.27779@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> 
>> But --follow=<filename> with <pathspec> can be useful, e.g. when <pathspec> 
>> is a directory (or, perhaps in the future, glob), which would mean "follow
>> the contents indicated in starting hash by <filename>, and stop following
>> when it falls out outside given <pathspec>, in our case given directory".
>
> Yes, that would indeed make sense. The pathspec ends up being kept as a 
> "limiter", and basically tells you what the "context" for following is 
> allowed to be. 
>
> Color me convinced.

Likewise.