Re: Proper tracking of copies in git log and others

From: Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 7, 2009, 06:53 UTC
Message-ID: <h2ure0$j73$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A4F8258.5070701@trn.iki.fi>

Lasse Kärkkäinen wrote:

> Getting full history of a file, including that beyond copies, is rather 
> important and apparently not currently supported by git tools.

You seem to be right. I'm quite new to Git so don't know all the commands, but this is what I came up with..

$ git log --raw 2009/exercise2/description.txt
commit edfd954572e844b05a7489bcaa149afb679bc1f6
Author: Graeme Geldenhuys <graeme@mastermaths.co.za>
Date:   Tue Jul 7 08:44:20 2009 +0200

     Course 2009 recycled entirely from 2008

:000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A  2009/exercise2/description.txt

We then take note of the ^^^^^^^ value and generate the following command.

$ git log -C --raw | grep e965047 :000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A 2009/exercise2/description.txt :000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A 2008/exercise2/description.txt :000000 100644 0000000... e965047... A 2007/exercise1/description.txt

Now now shows you the history of the file as it was copied from one directory to another.

Regards,
   - Graeme -

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