Thomas Rast wrote: > Umm, it should follow the rename. There is no rename. Unless there is a commit with the following diff (with heuristically similar content), I don't see how --follow can work: diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 diff --git a/subproject/README b/subproject/README new file mode 100644 Here, we just created one tiny merge commit after reading a tree into a non-/ prefix. There is no diff associated. -- 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