Linus Torvalds wrote: > Btw, this is also why I suggested adding a "--no-simplify-history" flag, > because in this case, that's exactly what _you_ want. The reason git is > doing something unexpected - and in your case inferior - is exactly that > what you want in this case is really not "explain the STATE of this file", > but you want "give me ALL THE HISTORY concerning this filename". [...] > Btw, the original "git whatchanged -p" answered exactly the question you > had, and the semantics changed when we rewrite "git whatchanged" to act > like "git log -p". [...] > And I do agree that we should teach "git log" and friends to be able to > answer both questions, and that's what my suggested patch (fleshed out > properly, of course) should do. Could we please 'git whatchanged -p' default to the original (before rewrite) behavior, i.e. ALL THE HISTORY? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html