Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757685AbZAIV02 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:26:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755862AbZAIV0R (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:26:17 -0500 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:42420 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755339AbZAIV0Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:26:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:27:57 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Len Brown , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Power Management List Subject: Re: git mv (was Re: [git pull] ACPI & Suspend patches for 2.6.29-rc0) Message-ID: <20090109212757.GA25434@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1227 Lines: 30 > > So yeah, "--follow" is broken. It's really a quick hack there for people > who come from some other SCM to feel more comfy with git. If you come from > SVN or CVS, you never had proper history, and you never had "gitk" anyway, > and so "gitk --follow" doesn't really work. But it makes the pure > _textual_ logs look a bit like CVS/SVN. > > I'd love to make --follow work better and integrate more, but I've been so > successful at never using it myself that I don't much care. And it really > is not a very natural thing for git to do, so the hackiness is somewhat > inherent. What other ways exist so I can see what the heck davem did to arch/sparc64/kernel/irq.c then? I know he added IRQ stacks - but how did the patch look like? I know no other way to find the old history than to do: git log --follow arch/sparc/kernel/irq_64.c But this also give me what I want. I'm just curious if there is a better way - in the case where you know the old name. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/