It turns out that I completely broke "git log --follow" with my recent
patch to revision.c ("Fix revision log diff setup, avoid unnecessary diff
generation", commit b7bb760d5ed4881422673d32f869d140221d3564).
Why? Because --follow obviously requires the diff machinery to function,
exactly the same way pickaxe does.
So everybody is away right now, but considering that nobody even noticed
this bug, I don't think it matters. But for the record, here's the trivial
one-liner fix (well, two, since I also fixed the comment).
Because of the nature of the bug, if you ask for patches when following
(which is one of the things I normally do), the bug is hidden, because
then the request for diff output will automatically also enable the diffs
themselves.
So while "git log --follow <filename>" didn't work, adding a "-p"
magically made it work again even without this fix.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
revision.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 5d294be..e76da0d 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1241,8 +1241,8 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch
if (revs->diffopt.output_format & ~DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT)
revs->diff = 1;
- /* Pickaxe needs diffs */
- if (revs->diffopt.pickaxe)
+ /* Pickaxe and rename following needs diffs */
+ if (revs->diffopt.pickaxe || revs->diffopt.follow_renames)
revs->diff = 1;
if (revs->topo_order)
-
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