On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If we want --follow and --parent to work together, you'd need to move the > special rename hack to be in the early phases. I'm sure it's possible. It > might even be reasonably simple. But it's very fundamentally not what we > do now. ... > It would > be nice if "gitk --follow <pathname>" worked properly, but it's just not > something I care very much about. Putting the internal machinery aside, it would be enormously useful for the end user. The Linux kernel is unusual in that there are relatively few renames / reorgs in the mainline -- maintainers pushback and force those things to happen before a patchset is merged. And you (as the lead maintainer) probably know all the renames in your own project. The use case for this is: "Where the hell does this WTF-worthy function come from, in this WTF-esque old codebase I just inherited?" cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- 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