Re: Git log follow question

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

If we want --follow and --parent to work together, you'd need to move the
special rename hack to be in the early phases. I'm sure it's possible. It
might even be reasonably simple. But it's very fundamentally not what we
do now.

...

It would
be nice if "gitk --follow <pathname>" worked properly, but it's just not
something I care very much about.

Putting the internal machinery aside, it would be enormously useful
for the end user.

The Linux kernel is unusual in that there are relatively few renames /
reorgs in the mainline -- maintainers pushback and force those things
to happen before a patchset is merged. And you (as the lead
maintainer) probably know all the renames in your own project.

The use case for this is: "Where the hell does this WTF-worthy
function come from, in this WTF-esque old codebase I just inherited?"

cheers,


m
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