Re: Git log can not show history before rename

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52:13PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

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)

Related (but also slow and hacky :) ), it is sometimes nice to see not
the whole history of a file, but all of the commits, in the usual log
order, that ended up affecting the outcome of a set of content (so not
any commits whose work was later overwritten). I posted a short script
for it a while back:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99278

-Peff