Re: Am able to delete a file with no trace in the log

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jun 4, 2009, 01:58 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906031855460.4880@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20090603233710.GA10578@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jeff King wrote:

>
> I don't even see it with --full-history.

Oh, that's because I used "gitk" rather than "git log", and that adds --parents, which in turn means that it actually keeps the merges.

So with

	git log --full-history --parents --stat -- b.txt

you actually finally get a visible removal.

		Linus

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