On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:19:36AM +0100, John Keeping wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:23:24AM +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > Hello! > > > > This [has been reported][1] to this list about half a year ago > > but with no response so I'm not even sure if it's been > > acknowledged as bug. > > > > [1]: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=135215709307126&q=raw > > > > When I use `git log --follow file` all is OK, but once I add > > `--reverse` to it, it no longer follows the file beyond renames. > > > > This makes it hard to query for when the file was really added, > > which I was trying to achieve with > > > > $ git -1 --reverse --follow several_times_renamed_file > > In my testing it actually seems to be worse than that. In git.git: > > $ git log --oneline builtin/clone.c | wc -l > 99 > $ git log --oneline --reverse builtin/clone.c | wc -l > 99 > $ git log --oneline --follow builtin/clone.c | wc -l > 125 > $ git log --oneline --follow --reverse builtin/clone.c | wc -l > 3 I just wanted to point out that it works fine when specifying the *original* file name (which kind of makes sense given that everything is done in reverse order): $ git init >/dev/null $ echo foo >a && git add a && git commit -m first [master (root-commit) 3631134] first 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 a $ echo bar >b && git add b && git commit -m second [master 7772184] second 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 b $ git mv b c && git commit -m third [master 0275097] third 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename b => c (100%) $ git log --oneline --follow --reverse -- c 0275097 third $ git log --oneline --follow --reverse -- b 7772184 second 0275097 third However, that also doesn't seem to work for builtin/clone.c: $ git log --oneline --follow --reverse -- builtin-clone.c | wc -l 65 > > So the combination of --reverse and --follow appears to have lost the > majority of the commits! > -- > 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 -- 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