Re: git history and file moves

"Moore, Robert" [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks,
Bob

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Michael J Gruber wrote:

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Alex Riesen venit, vidit, dixit 10/22/08 13:19:

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2008/10/22 Lin Ming [off-list ref]:

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I'm looking for a way to move files to a new directory and have the
full history follow the file automatically. Is this possible?

I know about --follow, but I want the history to just follow the file
transparently. ...

Of all Git tools, what does not do this "transparently" or "automatically"?

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Also, we have a git web interface and we want the full
history for the moved files to be available.

It is available. Whether it is shown is another question. git-web can
be improved (or just configured?)

By default, gitweb uses "-M" for diff. You can specify all options (-C,
-CC, -B) using  "@diff_opts" in the config file for gitweb.cgi - if that
is what you are using. Is it?

Anyways, using default configs for git log and gitweb.cgi both of them
show the full history (renames, history before and after) for me here,
using current git (1.6.0.3.514.g2f91b). What is your setup?

Here's what we have:

/var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb.acpica/gitweb.conf

Containts this : GITWEB_CSS = "/icons/gitweb.css";

This fragment has nothing to do with rename (file movement) detection.

What should we add to automatically get all file history?

While the 'commitdiff' view would, in default gitweb configuration,
contain information about file renames, currently 'history' view does
not support '--follow' option to git-log.  It wouldn't be too hard to
add it, but it just wasn't done (well, add to this the fact that
--follow works only for simple cases).

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