git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Re: git log -M -- filename is not working?

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
May 7, 2010, 20:25 UTC
Message-ID
<vpqfx23wjb4.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To
<19428.24021.324557.517627@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:
Show 15 quoted lines
> On May  7, Eugene Sajine wrote:
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You want the --follow flag, too.
>> 
>> Thanks! I missed this guy. By the way it seems that --follow flag
>> works without -M or -C.
>> 
>> Are those deprecated or I'm missing the difference between three of
>> them??
>
> BTW, I've had at least 4 people now who got confused by this.  Is
> there any use for -M/-C without --follow?  In any case, it will be
> very helpful if the -M/-C descriptions said "see also --follow".
>
> Also, is there a way to set this as the default for `git log'?

I guess -M and -C are here because log accepts all options that diff accepts, in case you run "git log -p". Then, -M and -C control what diff is displayed to the user.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
Previous: Eli BarzilayNext: Jakub Narebski
Message 5 of 26 in “git log -M -- filename is not working?”
  1. Eugene SajineMay 7, 2010
  2. Jacob HelwigMay 7, 2010
  3. Eugene SajineMay 7, 2010
  4. Eli BarzilayMay 7, 2010
  5. Matthieu MoyMay 7, 2010
  6. Jakub NarebskiMay 7, 2010
  7. Jeff KingMay 8, 2010
  8. Eli BarzilayMay 8, 2010
  9. Jeff KingMay 8, 2010
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2010
  11. Eli BarzilayMay 8, 2010
  12. Jeff KingMay 12, 2010
  13. Eli BarzilayMay 12, 2010
  14. Jeff KingMay 12, 2010
  15. Jeff KingMay 12, 2010
  16. Eli BarzilayMay 12, 2010
  17. Bo YangMay 12, 2010
  18. Jeff KingMay 12, 2010
  19. Bo YangMay 13, 2010
  20. Eli BarzilayMay 13, 2010
  21. Jeff KingMay 14, 2010
  22. Eli BarzilayMay 14, 2010
  23. Bo YangMay 12, 2010
  24. Jeff KingMay 12, 2010
  25. Eli BarzilayMay 12, 2010
  26. Bo YangMay 12, 2010

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.