Am 6/21/2012 14:56, schrieb Petr Onderka: > if I try to see the history of a file across copies by "gitk --follow file", > it seems it shows the correct revisions (although disconnected), > but for revisions that modify the file under some older name, > the diff of those changes is not shown. --follow is a bolted-on feature. Do not expect it to work according to your expectations ;) > For example, I have a file f1, modify it in revision A, > then copy it to f2 and modify it in revision B, > and finally modify f2 in revision C. > > If I execute "gitk --follow f2", I can see revisions A, B and C. > But in revision B, the diff shown contains the whole of f2 (as a new file) > and the diff for revision A is completely empty. > > What I'd like to see in revision B is the diff between f2 and f1 at that point > and in revision A the diff for f1. Turn off "Limit diffs to listed paths" in gitk's settings. Perhaps this shows the changes (among the changes of all other files per commit, of course). -- Hannes -- 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