Lukas Fleischer <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:19:36AM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
[...]
>> $ 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):
[...]
> However, that also doesn't seem to work for builtin/clone.c:
>
> $ git log --oneline --follow --reverse -- builtin-clone.c | wc -l
> 65
I'm pretty sure that is simply because --follow iis a horrible hack,
known to be broken in many ways. I have it on my longer-term todo list
to unify it with -L -M, which already does the Right Thing (more
generally, not in the --reverse interaction, which it never occurred to
me I should check).
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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