"Eckhard Maaß" <eckhard.s.maass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:03:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> It is neither but if I have to pick one between the two, it is much >> closer to the former than the latter. The primary source of this is >> that we have only *one* pathspec given to the diff machinery, but in >> order to implement your ideal "find harder", you'd need *two*. That >> is, one set of paths for which you are interested in their origin, >> and the other set that you allow the machinery to consider as possible >> origins. Since we can only give one pathspec machinery, that one >> pathspec is used to specify both of these sets. > > How does tihs compare to `--follow`? With that knob active the machinery > indeed uses the whole repository for finding renames and/or copies. Is > this the only exception then? '--follow' is a checkbox hack that is not even properly integrated with the diff machinery (it only exists on the "log" side of the tool), so I do not think it is productive to find a comparison.
