From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:29:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Git log can not show history before rename
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0901300329y53e46d91xda75799ce1244ddd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1976ea660901300323n384d3650s3bb5a575accb65d1@mail.gmail.com>

2009/1/30 Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>:
> mkdir tt3
> cd tt3
> git init-db

"git init"

> touch a.c
> git add a.c
> git commit -a -m "test1"
>
> git mv a.c b.c
> git commit -a -m "rename"
>
> modify b.c
> git commit -a -m "test2"
>
> git log -C -M -- b.c
[...]
> I can't get history before rename.

You asked to restrict the search to the b.c path.

You want:

git log --follow -- b.c

Man git-log:
       --follow
           Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames.

HTH,
Santi
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