Re: git log --follow doesn't follow a rename over a merge

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James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm trying, without success, to get git log to show the history of a
> file across a rename.  I'm using git version 1.7.5.4, and git blame
> has no such issues tracking the source of the lines.

[...]

> Have I done something wrong in grafting history like this, or is this
> just a problem with the way git log --follow tracks renames?

The `--follow` option to git-log is more of a bolted-on hack rather
than proper solution, see 750f7b6 (Finally implement "git log
--follow", 2007-06-19), and it might not work in all cases.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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