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 - 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