On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 04:53:28PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > This doesn't help with your case, but I remember there being some > similar confusions and/or expectations mismatches reported in the > patch. E.g. "--since" here: > https://lore.kernel.org/git/220401.86pmm1nmvh.gmgdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > I couldn't find a reference quickly, but I seem to recall (but perhaps > I'm imagining it) that we had a report/discussion semi-recently about: > > git log --reverse --follow -- path > > Which has a similar edge case, e.g. try on git.git: > > git log --reverse --follow -- object-name.c > > That's also "correct" if you look at it from the POV of how we implement > it, i.e. we'll traverse, and the rename to object-name.c is the first > time we encounter the name from the POV of the walking logic. I think all of this goes back to Linus's original "--follow is a hack I bolted on" implementation. It probably should happen up-front as part of the history simplification. I think it's a combination of nobody wanting to do the work to extract that, and that it may produce less "streaming" output, as we have to do a lot more work before producing the first line of output. -Peff
