Having difficulty understanding how to invoke 'git log' to track the history of a file that was imported into a different location through a subtree merge. I had thought just '--follow' was needed, but I don't seem to be getting any results with that. Example below. Thanks! ~Andrew git --version git version 2.9.0 cd /tmp mkdir subtree_test cd subtree_test git init touch foo git add foo git commit -m "initial" git remote add git_src https://github.com/git/git git fetch git_src git merge --allow-unrelated-histories -s ours --no-commit git_src/master git read-tree --prefix=git_src -u git_src/master git commit -m "import git as subtree" cd git_src git log pager.c commit 22e7b2600b54f25314c399d45b1ea45d2427c754 Merge: 8df5087 ab7797d Author: Andrew Crabtree <andrew.crabtree@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jun 22 08:58:04 2016 -0700 import git as subtree git log --follow pager.c # nothing gitk pager.c * # only shows merge commit 22e7b git gui blame pager.c & # shows history as expected git log HEAD^2 -- pager.c commit c3b1e8d85133e2a19d372b7c166d5b49fcbbfef2 Merge: 595bfef 708b8cc Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 24 13:26:01 2016 -0800 Merge branch 'jc/am-i-v-fix' The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C. * jc/am-i-v-fix: am -i: fix "v"iew pager: factor out a helper to prepare a child process to run the pager pager: lose a separate argv[] commit 3e3a4a41b0dac564c0302ced4ccc423d0d39bc21 Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Feb 16 14:34:44 2016 -0800 -- 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