Re: How to tell if a file was renamed between two commits

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In article <20100203025347.GB13092@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
 "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ron Garret <ron1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In article <20100203023219.GA13092@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >  "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > So... is there an easy way to work around this?  Is there a way to get, 
> > > > say, rev-list to tell me when the file it is tracking changed names?
> > > 
> > > Maybe use the -M flag to git log, or the --follow flag to
> > > log/rev-list?
> > 
> > Nope.  git log --follow will follow through a name change but won't 
> > actually say when the name changed happened or what the previous name of 
> > the file was.
> > 
> > And actually playing around with it some more, it appears that git 
> > rev-list doesn't actually track file renames, or at least it doesn't do 
> > it all the time.  Weird.  I'm going to have to play around with this 
> > some more.
> 
> Use:
> 
>   git log --format=%H -M --name-status --follow -- path 
> 
> I just tried it:
> 
> $ git log --format=%H -M --name-status --follow 
> gerrit-prettify/src/main/resources/com/google/gerrit/prettify/client/prettify.
> js
> 8db22c85c49814b99639b2e6346583e9be4c289f
> 
> R100    
> gerrit-patch-gwtexpui/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/
> 544546fcd680f82a88df3e9eba7df8acfadf1e46
> 
> M       
> gerrit-patch-gwtexpui/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/client/
> d83ac11a52c1b6d4acae932a8495daf1e9129fdf
> 
> R100    
> gerrit-patch-gwtexpui/src/main/java/com/google/gwtexpui/safehtml/public/
> 44671f5c6929a8f05223dd359182610286ceb98a
> 
> R100    src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/public/prettify20090521/prettify.js   
>   
> 56fc9e3d951b0886c4781a5c8623dbc3da824f30
> 
> A       src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/public/prettify20090521/prettify.js
> 
> 
> Yay, its been renamed 3 times in its life here.  :-)

Cool!  Thanks!

rg

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