The git-log manual page says --name-only Show only names of changed files. But when a file has been renamed, only the new name is printed, not the old. I think it would be more useful and more correct to print both names. For example % git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/eda/test/.git/ % touch a % git add a % git commit -mx [master (root-commit) ca81aa7] x 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 a % git mv a b % git commit -my [master 7b3925c] y 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename a => b (100%) % git log --name-only -n 1 commit 7b3925c1ece26d08d79cf9f06bfcb0b38fea611f (HEAD -> master) Author: Ed Avis <eda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2020-06-11 11:59:34 +0100 y b I would expect that last log message to show the old filename a as well as the new filename b. If you give --no-renames then both filenames are shown, of course, but I think it should be possible to detect the rename and print out both old and new names. There is --name-status which will print more info including renames, but again I believe --name-only should also show both. Thank you for considering this improvement request. % git --version git version 2.26.0 -- Ed Avis <ed.avis@xxxxxxxx>
