Re: [PATCH] log: add log.follow config option

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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> So activating --follow for all "git log" calls would prevent log from
> being used with several pathspecs.
>
> Or, do you have a preparation patch that allows --follow with multiple
> pathspecs? ;-)
>
> In any case, you have to test "git log -- path1 path2" with the option
> activated.

Or more commonly, just "git log" with no pathspec.

I also think that it is a bad idea to force "log --follow" to people
before it is made into a true feature; as it stands, it is merely a
"checkbox" item.  It has too severe limitation to be used seriously
in real projects, unless your history is completely linear.

cf.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269357/focus=269433
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