From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:37:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t4202 (log): add failing test for log with subtree
Message-ID: <CALkWK0kaYeOt3pdjae8rXPiPBWnfrAPOoOaQ73m2qktVxvoeTw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87r4i2pxo5.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>

Thomas Rast wrote:
> Umm, it should follow the rename.

There is no rename.  Unless there is a commit with the following diff
(with heuristically similar content), I don't see how --follow can
work:

    diff --git a/README b/README
    deleted file mode 100644

    diff --git a/subproject/README b/subproject/README
    new file mode 100644

Here, we just created one tiny merge commit after reading a tree into
a non-/ prefix.  There is no diff associated.