From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:06:06 GMT
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609061205100.27779@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <edn5dd$c4s$2@sea.gmane.org>



On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> 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