Re: Git log can not show history before rename

Santi Béjar wrote:

2009/1/30 Frank Li [off-list ref]:

quoted

Does it conflict with --parents?
When I use --follow and --parents together,  parents can't rewrite.
without --follow, parent can rewrite.

I think there are no obvious reasons to conflict and they could work
together, but as Jakub just said, --follow is quite new and only works
well with simple history and simple cases.

You might find this useful:

  $ git config alias.renames
  !GIT_PAGER="grep -v '^$' | sort -u" git --paginate log --follow --name-only --pretty=format:"" --

Slow and hacky, but works nice enough in practice.  The intended use
case is like

  $ gitk --complicated-rev-options $(git renames git-svn.perl)

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Thomas Rast
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