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How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ?How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ?Posted Feb 26, 2010 14:28 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ? by phdm Parent article: How old is our kernel? Git tracks renames nicely and retains the history for the moved files. So no, a rename does not, alone, cause any lines in the file to be considered to be changed.
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How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ? Posted Feb 26, 2010 16:33 UTC (Fri) by phdm (guest, #56884) [Link]
I didn't know that 'git blame' did such a good job. Does 'git log' also do such a nice job now (following moves and renames) ?
How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ? Posted Feb 26, 2010 18:31 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
I believe that there is a -M flag that tells these tools to follows moves and renames (and IIRC you can give it an argument to tell it how hard to look for moves and renames)
this can also track when parts of a file are copied to another file.
How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ? Posted Mar 1, 2010 3:42 UTC (Mon) by phdm (guest, #56884) [Link]
In my experience, 'git log -M' did never give the full log of a single file.
I have now discovered that 'git log --follow' does.
How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ? Posted Mar 2, 2010 1:13 UTC (Tue) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500) [Link] In my experience, 'git log -M' did never give the full log of a single file. I have now discovered that 'git log --follow' does.Actually the problem is that in "git log -M filename" the filename part is path limiter, and is applied (for history simplification) before rename detection, and that is why you need "git log --follow filename". "git log -M" (no pathspec), or "git log -M directory" should work as expected.
How were the moved/renamed files accounted for ? Posted Mar 2, 2010 12:47 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
So -M (detect renames) seems from a user's point of view to act differently depending on whether you're trying to log a file or the whole project.
This seems like a good, specific example of one of those usability issues people are always handwaving about.
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