Re: git log --follow doesn't follow a rename over a merge

On 16 June 2011 19:15, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

This test case shows full-history helping:

This test shows what I've done:

commit() {
 echo $1 >>$1 && git add $1 && git commit -m $1
}

git init repo
cd repo
commit one
commit two
commit three

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newroot
rm *
git rm --cached *
commit four
commit four
commit four
commit four
commit four
commit four
commit five

git checkout master
git merge --no-commit newroot

git mv four four2
commit six
commit four2
commit five

git log --graph --oneline
* 7c4c441 five
* 02a7262 four2
*   6ac2fe0 six
|\
| * d4f5e35 five
| * 350d3e9 four
| * b975d48 four
| * 3bdbf38 four
| * 5b58da8 four
| * 9fb4f59 four
| * a6d1492 four
* b301c9c three
* 38865e2 two
* 9a9c689 one

At this point, only git-blame seems correct:

git blame -- four2

Correct

git log --oneline -- four2

02a7262 four2
6ac2fe0 six

git log --follow --oneline -- four2

02a7262 four2

From the above: I can't log past four2 (without using  blame-log.sh).

git log -- four

 <no output>

git log --follow --oneline -- four

350d3e9 four
b975d48 four
3bdbf38 four
5b58da8 four
9fb4f59 four
a6d1492 four

From above: I can't log four without doing '--follow', and the output

is missing the deletion in the merge commit.

Log of 'five', which hasn't been renamed, looks ok.

James