| EGit needs --NOfollow option [message #1710227] |
Mon, 05 October 2015 12:48 |
 Anthony Mising name
Messages: 5
Registered: October 2015 |
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In Eclipse the Histories seem to essentially do a
git log --follow
However, this does not work when Git gets confused and does not find renames. I have such a case in which I moved a file from wrong/ to right/, checked in and, unfortunately, pushed. The history was gone.
So I moved the file back from right/ to wrong/ and the git log history is now good, except for the time that the file spent in wrong/. However, the git log --follow history just follows the rename to right/ and then stops. This is what Eclipse also seems to do.
Follow should be the default, but what is required is some sort of no-follow option.
(This is a git design bug. Git mv does nothing but move the file. According to Sir Linus following the history of a file is an old subversion habit, and one should understand the entire history of everything holistically at the same time. Sadly I am not as smart as Sir Linus and cannot do this. Nor, I strongly suspect, can he.)
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