Eli Barzilay <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On May 7, Eugene Sajine wrote: > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > You want the --follow flag, too. > > > > Thanks! I missed this guy. By the way it seems that --follow flag > > works without -M or -C. > > > > Are those deprecated or I'm missing the difference between three of > > them?? > > BTW, I've had at least 4 people now who got confused by this. Is > there any use for -M/-C without --follow? In any case, it will be > very helpful if the -M/-C descriptions said "see also --follow". Yes, '-M/-C' is useful with "git diff" _without_ pathspec, including e.g. "git show -C". The problem with "git log -M -- <filename>" is that history simplification, which is required for good performance, happens before diff mechanism has a chance to perform rename detection. Before there was '--follow' option to git-log (which supports only the case of single file, and doesn't work that well with more complicated history), you were forced to do $ git log -M -- <filename> <oldname> <oldername>... > > Also, is there a way to set this as the default for `git log'? I don't think so. Note also that '--follow' works only with single file, and does not work for example (currently) with directory pathspec. -- Jakub Narebski 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