From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 02:23:39 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist
Message-ID: <7vu0ksoxg4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050524213102.GB19180@vrfy.org>

I was browsing www.kernel.org/git and noticed that it shows
only files that exist at the tip.  How do I get history of a
file that does not exist anymore at the tip?

For example, diff-helper.c history is (quite correctly)
truncated somewhere close to where diff-tree-helper.c was
renamed to it.  From the commit log, humans can easily tell that
it used to be called diff-tree-helper.c.  I could not find an
easy way to see the history of diff-tree-helper.c file.

On probably a bit different topic (but I do not know who is
updating the copy on www.kernel.org, sorry).  Could somebody
update http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ to
rename git-diff-tree-helper to git-diff-helper please?
git.git/Documentation/git.txt has been corrected quite some
time ago [*1*] and I do not know how the updates are propagated
to the web version of the documentation; is it a manual process?

[Footnotes]

*1* The following command tells me it was done about 10 days ago.

    git-rev-list 0 |
    git-diff-tree -S'diff-tree-helper' --stdin -v -p Documentation/git.txt