Re: git-log --follow?

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Hi,

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The message I am following up is a patch to unpack-trees.c, whose basic 
> code structure is Daniel's work, so I wanted to CC him and the easiest 
> way to look his address up was to run git-log on it.
> 
> Not so.
>
> [...]
> 
> "git log -- unpack-trees.c" would not follow into read-tree.c, but I 
> thought "git log --follow -- unpack-trees.c" is supposed to; I tried it 
> for the first time, but it does not seem to work as well as I hoped.

Your lesson as to why following renames is not as useful as some might 
want to make us believe is duly noted; will use it as back reference 
should I have to defend that view again.

However, I have to wonder why you did not solve your problem this way:

	git log --author=Daniel

Ciao,
Dscho

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