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Re: Finally implement "git log --follow"

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 21, 2007, 15:44 UTC
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
> 
> Bad: Currently git-log does not support --stdin option, required IMHO
> when git-log is runned by a tool, not a user, due to the possibility
> of a very long command line.

I do think we should just fix this. The patch to do so can't be *that* bad.

I'll look at it.
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> FWIK "git blame -M --incremental" does not support "code lines range
> filtering", when with the mouse you select some lines of code and
> after filtering you see the subset of file's history that modified
> that range of code. This feature is currently supported by qgit
> annotating code.
Yeah, that sounds like it would be a good thing to fix.
		Linus
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  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2007
  3. Marco CostalbaJul 4, 2007
  4. Marco CostalbaJun 20, 2007
  5. Linus TorvaldsJun 20, 2007
  6. Marco CostalbaJun 21, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsJun 21, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinJun 21, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsJun 21, 2007
  10. Linus TorvaldsJun 21, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2007

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