On 16 June 2011 19:15, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > This test case shows full-history helping: This test shows what I've done: commit() { echo $1 >>$1 && git add $1 && git commit -m $1 } git init repo cd repo commit one commit two commit three git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newroot rm * git rm --cached * commit four commit four commit four commit four commit four commit four commit five git checkout master git merge --no-commit newroot git mv four four2 commit six commit four2 commit five git log --graph --oneline * 7c4c441 five * 02a7262 four2 * 6ac2fe0 six |\ | * d4f5e35 five | * 350d3e9 four | * b975d48 four | * 3bdbf38 four | * 5b58da8 four | * 9fb4f59 four | * a6d1492 four * b301c9c three * 38865e2 two * 9a9c689 one At this point, only git-blame seems correct: > git blame -- four2 Correct > git log --oneline -- four2 02a7262 four2 6ac2fe0 six > git log --follow --oneline -- four2 02a7262 four2 >From the above: I can't log past four2 (without using blame-log.sh). > git log -- four <no output> > git log --follow --oneline -- four 350d3e9 four b975d48 four 3bdbf38 four 5b58da8 four 9fb4f59 four a6d1492 four >From above: I can't log four without doing '--follow', and the output is missing the deletion in the merge commit. Log of 'five', which hasn't been renamed, looks ok. James -- 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