Linus Torvalds wrote: > There's a huge difference between "pathname" and "inode". And git operates > on _pathnames_, not on inodes. So when you give a pathname specifier, > that's _exactly_ what it is. It's a pathname specifier, _not_ an "inode" > specifier. > > And pathnames don't change. They're just names for paths to possibly > _find_ a file/inode. They can't be "renamed". The data that is found > behind a pathname may be moved to _another_ pathname (and we call that a > rename), but that doesn't change the original pathname in any way, shape, > or form. So if/when git would have --follow option to git-log and git-diff-*, it would be rather --follow=<filename>, rather than --follow -- <paths>? git-rev-list could then output hash with current set of <filenames>, which were given <filename> at the beginning, i.e. <hash> -- <filename> [<filename>...] -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: 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