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Bogus error from git log --full-diff

From
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Jun 19, 2020, 15:15 UTC
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If you have log.follow=true, then git log --full-diff doesn't work any more, giving a bogus error:

$ ./git -c log.follow=true log --full-diff . fatal: --follow requires exactly one pathspec

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