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Re: git log --follow for directories

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 19, 2015, 16:16 UTC
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Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org> writes:
> Is there any benefit about having it like it is today or is it just
> the usual "no one has implemented it yet"?

It actually is even more sketchy than that. A single file following was done merely as a checkbox item that works majority of the time, and any mergy history that renames the file on one side of the side branch but not on the other may not truly follow it.

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