From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] log: add log.follow config option
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:58:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq615tw6vn.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436463511.4542.27.camel@twopensource.com> (David Turner's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:31 -0400")
David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com> writes:
> On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 10:23 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> <snip>
>> If I were David and sending this v4 patch, it would have looked like
>> this.
>>
>> -- >8 --
>>
>> From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 21:29:34 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH v4] log: add "log.follow" configuration variable
>>
>> People who work on projects with mostly linear history with frequent
>> whole file renames may want to always use "git log --follow" when
>> inspecting the life of the content that live in a single path.
>>
>> Teach the command to behave as if "--follow" was given from the
>> command line when log.follow configuration variable is set *and*
>> there is one (and only one) path on the command line.
>
>
> Thanks. That version is much better.
No, thank _you_; we should be thanking you for helping us improve
the system ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-09 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 17:42 [PATCH v4] log: add log.follow config option David Turner
2015-07-09 8:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-09 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-09 17:38 ` David Turner
2015-07-09 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-07-10 17:53 ` David Turner
2015-07-10 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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