From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:30:23 GMT
Subject: git-log --full-history renamed-file
Message-ID: <87lki6umts.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

Hello,

Is there some git-log-like command (or some git-log option)
to print a log of deltas affecting a file across renames?

I know that git-annotate can detect renames (and gitk),
but that's not quite the interface I was looking for.

I've tried with git-log --full-history, with and without --parents,
to no avail.  Adding --parents does make it produce a couple more
log entries, but they are not relevant.

The "Why does git not track renames?" section in the wiki,
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Godfry says that "git-log -M"
will do what I want, but that appears to have no effect.

To be precise, I'd like to run a command like this

  git-log <options> current-name

to summarize the commits affecting current-name as well as
those affecting old-name (which I git-mv'd to current-name).

Jim