Re: history of a renamed file

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2008, 13:25 UTC
Message-ID: <m3y774putc.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <480F3369.5080203@melosgmbh.de>

Christoph Duelli <duelli@melosgmbh.de> writes:

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> Given a repo that contains a file x.c
> that got renamed from
>   some/path/x.c
> to
>   new/location/x.c
> 
> Is it possible (ideally with gitk) to view the complete history of
> what is now new/location/x.c *including* the history of changes that
> occurred when it stil was some/path/x.c?
> When I say "gitk new/location/x.c" I get just the changes made
> starting with the rename.
> When I call "gitk" and look for the changeset, the rename is detected,
> though. Therefore I hope that it is somehow possible to obtain the
> complete file-specific history without truncation at renames.
> 
> Any ideas?

Try --follow option, see git-log(1), although I'm not sure if gitk supports it (it should).

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Jakub Narebski
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