Re: Finally implement "git log --follow"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jun 20, 2007, 16:47 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706200940000.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550706192327l187b30eblb5bd5e4e76b3eab6@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

> 
>  now I have one more reason to switch from using git-rev-list to
> git-log in qgit, file history annotation, that is currently based on
> git-rev-list, will automatically gain a powerful feature.

Well, note my other email about how "--follow" does *not* play together with "--parents", because the two do totally different kinds of filtering of the commits. So yes, you can use it for file history annotation, but not for the "graphical history" part that depends on parenthood etc.

That said, you really would be better off using

	git blame -M --incremental

for the history annotation. It does the rename following *and* so much more.

		Linus