Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.18.2

On 11/17/06, Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

* cg-log does not follow history across renames anymore; it never really
  actually worked and was instead causing problems and random error
  messages. There needs to be git-core support for this funcionality,
  hacking it with a perl filter is bad design, so I'm not going to fix
  the filter (but I'd take patches if someone else did ;).

I was looking at the follow renames Perl script last week (hey, I was
bored!) and while I could tell it didn't work, I did get the feeling
that it wasn't an impossible task, at least for the 'explicit paths'
case. For the 'whole tree' and subpath cases it _is_ tricky, and would
be faster to solve within git, but not impossible.

And even then, I am tempted to think that git log could provide some
better hints than it does today when walking the whole tree or
subpaths, so that cg-log or gitk can ask [if relevant] for selective
rename info.

I am curious as to why you see it as bad design...

cheers,