Re: git mv (was Re: [git pull] ACPI & Suspend patches for2.6.29-rc0)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 16:41:21 EST




On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> What other ways exist so I can see what the heck davem did to
> arch/sparc64/kernel/irq.c then?

Sure, use "git log --follow".

I'm just saying that you can't expect the rest of the git powertools to
print pretty histories.. In particular, none of the graphical tools will
give you that nice merge history stuff - because the way "--follow" works,
we simply don't do that.

Linus
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