From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:11:37 GMT
Subject: Re: rfc - Changing the way gitk and git-gui are managed
Message-ID: <AANLkTikkMYY5r4RzBZ-mTBVSXuZfhu8HSZPEbNTGnJ2i@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100724193428.GA4491@burratino>

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>  $ git log --oneline -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk
>>>  $ git log --oneline --follow -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk
>>>  62ba514 Move gitk to its own subdirectory
>>>  $ git log --oneline -SListbox.font -- gitk-git/gitk gitk
>>>  207ad7b gitk: Set the font for all listbox widgets
>>>  $
>>
>> This is a bug in git log --follow
>
> The first one is not.

That one is a bug in history simplification, which has simplified away
commits that affected files that got renamed into gitk-git/gitk during
a merge commit.  So the bug is very similar, albeit probably in a
different place in the code.  (-M doesn't help either.)

Avery