Re: --follow is ignored when used with --reverse

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Jul 2, 2013, 09:51 UTC
Message-ID: <87vc4t9tn5.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130702093842.GA4353@blizzard>

Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:19:36AM +0100, John Keeping wrote:

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>>     $ git log --oneline --follow builtin/clone.c | wc -l
>>     125
>>     $ git log --oneline --follow --reverse builtin/clone.c | wc -l
>>     3
>
> I just wanted to point out that it works fine when specifying the *original*
> file name (which kind of makes sense given that everything is done in reverse
> order):

[...]

> However, that also doesn't seem to work for builtin/clone.c:
>
>     $ git log --oneline --follow --reverse -- builtin-clone.c | wc -l
>     65

I'm pretty sure that is simply because --follow iis a horrible hack, known to be broken in many ways. I have it on my longer-term todo list to unify it with -L -M, which already does the Right Thing (more generally, not in the --reverse interaction, which it never occurred to me I should check).

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Thomas Rast
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