# BUG:git-log --follow should never trim output WRT equivalent git-log 2 messages from 2008-03-24 to 2008-03-25. Participants: Santiago Gala, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12843 ## Santiago Gala, 2008-03-24 16:19 Subject: BUG:git-log --follow should never trim output WRT equivalent git-log Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20080324T161602-184%40post.gmane.org ``` I tried this on today's git.git repository, as a suggestion for following moves: $ git log -M -C -C --color --stat --follow -- gitk-git/po/de.po | wc -l 0 sgala@marlow ~/newcode/git/git (master)$ git log -M -C -C --color --stat -- gitk-git/po/de.po | wc -l 31 $ git --version git version 1.5.4.4 I find very strange that --follow makes git log to stop outputting the first entries. Regards Santiago ``` ## Jeff King, 2008-03-25 01:45 Subject: Re: BUG:git-log --follow should never trim output WRT equivalent git-log Message-ID: <20080325014504.GA15864@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080325014504.GA15864%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:19:01PM +0000, Santiago Gala wrote: > $ git log -M -C -C --color --stat --follow -- gitk-git/po/de.po | wc -l > 0 > sgala@marlow ~/newcode/git/git (master)$ git log -M -C -C --color --stat -- > gitk-git/po/de.po | wc -l > 31 > $ git --version > git version 1.5.4.4 > > I find very strange that --follow makes git log to stop outputting the first > entries. I think the tricky thing here is that every one of those commits is a merge, which doesn't actually "introduce" any content, and that probably confuses the "--follow" code. The thing is that getting the history of gitk-git specifically is a bit tricky. All of the commits actually happen to, e.g., the file 'gitk' in the main gitk repository, and then Junio merges it into git using a special "subtree" merge as 'gitk-git/gitk'. So looking at a path in 'gitk-git' will always just turn up merge commits; the actual commits took place on a different path. But I haven't looked too closely at what's going on, so I may be way off base. My two cents. -Peff ```