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Re: file rename causes history to disappear

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 6, 2006, 19:06 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0609061205100.27779@g5.osdl.org>
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> But --follow=<filename> with <pathspec> can be useful, e.g. when <pathspec> 
> is a directory (or, perhaps in the future, glob), which would mean "follow
> the contents indicated in starting hash by <filename>, and stop following
> when it falls out outside given <pathspec>, in our case given directory".

Yes, that would indeed make sense. The pathspec ends up being kept as a "limiter", and basically tells you what the "context" for following is allowed to be. 

Color me convinced.
		Linus
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  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 6, 2006
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