From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:13:02 GMT Subject: Re: git history and file moves Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D8308580AA7FFFB@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> "Moore, Robert" writes: > > Thanks, > Bob > > >-----Original Message----- >Michael J Gruber wrote: >>Alex Riesen venit, vidit, dixit 10/22/08 13:19: >>> 2008/10/22 Lin Ming : >>>> I'm looking for a way to move files to a new directory and have the >>>> full history follow the file automatically. Is this possible? >>>> >>>> I know about --follow, but I want the history to just follow the file >>>> transparently. ... >>> >>> Of all Git tools, what does not do this "transparently" or "automatically"? [...] >>>> Also, we have a git web interface and we want the full >>>> history for the moved files to be available. >>> >>> It is available. Whether it is shown is another question. git-web can >>> be improved (or just configured?) >> >> By default, gitweb uses "-M" for diff. You can specify all options (-C, >> -CC, -B) using "@diff_opts" in the config file for gitweb.cgi - if that >> is what you are using. Is it? >> >> Anyways, using default configs for git log and gitweb.cgi both of them >> show the full history (renames, history before and after) for me here, >> using current git (1.6.0.3.514.g2f91b). What is your setup? > > Here's what we have: > > /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.acpica/gitweb.conf > > Containts this : GITWEB_CSS = "/icons/gitweb.css"; This fragment has nothing to do with rename (file movement) detection. > > What should we add to automatically get all file history? While the 'commitdiff' view would, in default gitweb configuration, contain information about file renames, currently 'history' view does not support '--follow' option to git-log. It wouldn't be too hard to add it, but it just wasn't done (well, add to this the fact that --follow works only for simple cases). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git