From: Marco Costalba Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:27:49 GMT Subject: Re: Finally implement "git log --follow" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 6/19/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, I've really held off doing this too damn long, because I'm lazy, and I > was always hoping that somebody else would do it. > > But no, people keep asking for it, but nobody actually did anything, so I > decided I might as well bite the bullet, and instead of telling people > they could add a "--follow" flag to "git log" to do what they want to do, > I decided that it looks like I just have to do it for them.. > Thanks, 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. Marco P.S: The only thing that is still missing in git-log against git-rev-list is a --stdin option. This is needed because with 40 chars SHA the command line could became very long in case of repos with many tags/branches or when loading StGIT unapplied patches (one sha per patch) and one git-rev-list call to loading them all. Without --stdin we break easily on _some_ OS and in the worst cases (a lot of unapplied patches) *even* under Linux.