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Re: [PATCH] Documentation for git-log --follow

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 12, 2007, 18:48 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LFD.0.999.0707121147050.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To
<20070712145230.GA21590@dervierte>
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Steven Walter wrote:
>
> It would appear that Linus didn't add write and docs for this feature 
> when he wrote it.
I am shocked. *Shocked* I say.
Oh, actually, no I'm not. Par for the course for me. Sorry.

It might be worth documenting that unline all the other log commands, --follow requires exactly one pathname. Maybe it's obvious.

		Linus
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