Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Monday 2006 November 20 05:57, Alexander Litvinov wrote: >> >>> > PAGER=cat git log -M -C --pretty=oneline b/a >> >> I've come across this too. Personally I'm not sure what use "-C" is. From >> the manpage, man git-diff-files (no, this isn't the place I'd look either). > > The real issue here is because the b/a on the command line > applies on the input-side, and does not act as the output > filter. This comes from _very_ early design decision and if you > dig the list archive you will see Linus and I arguing about > diffcore-pathspec (which later died off). > > What it means is that "git log" will look at path that matches > b/a (that means b/a/c and b/a/d are looked at, if b/a were a > directory). Since path "a" which is what the file was > originally at is not something the pattern b/a matches, there is > no way b/a is noticed as a rename from a. > > I've been meaning to resurrect Fredrik's --single-follow=path > patch but haven't had time to recently, with all the other > interesting discussion happening on the list. But for now, you can use PAGER= git log -M -C -- b/a a -- 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