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Nnorbert.nemec <norbert.nemec@native-instruments.de>
Date
Sep 6, 2012, 07:02 UTC
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Hi there,

'git blame --follow' seems to be undocumented. The exact behavior is not clear to me. Perhaps an alias for some combination of '-C' and '-M'? It seems not be be fully consistent with 'git log --follow'.

Could someone clarify? Did I miss something?

Greetings, Norbert

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  5. Documentation/git-blame.txt: --follow is a NO-OPDrew Northup, Sep 19, 2012
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  13. Re* [PATCH] Documentation/git-blame.txt: --follow is a NO-OPJunio C Hamano, Sep 21, 2012
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