On Thursday 18 June 2009 03:38:09 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  Rob> I note that readlink started life as a debian-only command, and
>  Rob> busybox has had that for years.  (I have no idea how long
>  Rob> because the source control repository has degraded severely in
>  Rob> the past few years.  If you do a "git log coreutils/readlink.c"
>  Rob> it says the file was moved in 2007 and the history before that
>  Rob> was apparently lost.  Yes, even with git log -M.  I'm pretty
>  Rob> sure this one was there in 2003, but am not downloading old
>  Rob> source tarballs to confirm it.)
>
> You want to use git log --follow, not -M. -M is for formatting of
> patches (E.G. when you use git log -p).

Ah, my fault for not reading the man page down to line two hundred and fifty 
one.  (Why is that behavior _not_ the default again?)

Thanks,

Rob
-- 
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds
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