From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
Cc: David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log: add log.follow config option
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:19:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvbe37eyy.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8uazo9y6.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:16:17 +0200")
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr> writes:
> So activating --follow for all "git log" calls would prevent log from
> being used with several pathspecs.
>
> Or, do you have a preparation patch that allows --follow with multiple
> pathspecs? ;-)
>
> In any case, you have to test "git log -- path1 path2" with the option
> activated.
Or more commonly, just "git log" with no pathspec.
I also think that it is a bad idea to force "log --follow" to people
before it is made into a true feature; as it stands, it is merely a
"checkbox" item. It has too severe limitation to be used seriously
in real projects, unless your history is completely linear.
cf.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269357/focus=269433
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-01 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-01 19:03 [PATCH] log: add log.follow config option David Turner
2015-07-01 21:16 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-01 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-07-02 18:43 ` David Turner
2015-07-03 7:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-03 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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