Re: That improved git-gui blame viewer..

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 13, 2007, 11:11 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550706130411g151b76e3sa2e351aff5dbb35b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v645thto7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>

On 6/12/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> However, adding a new option to "git log" so that you can say
> 'git log --single-follow=$this_file_at_the_tip $branch' is a
> separate matter.  I think it is a sensible thing to do.  But
> even if we do that, I think --single-follow should limit itself
> to the rename following of "diff -M/-C" style.  It is insane to
> include another path only because the result did copy&paste only
> a handful lines out of during its history.
>

Some weeks ago I've started to experiment with git-log as a replacement for git-rev-list (as suggested by Linus in a thread).

I found some problems and so I stopped, but I think it's time to give it another look.

Maybe this week-end I'll do some testing.

Marco