On Thu, Mar 28 2019, Victor wrote:
> Any plans to fix this? No. I just thought I'd peek at it for a sec, sorry. Maybe someone else is interested it poking it some more. > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:16:43 +0100 > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 28 2019, Victor wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> $ git log include/__vic/mutex.h >>> commit 9429293f8f8fb0819c77cf1f723567f6edc8fb6a >>> Merge: 96dd9a2 f484f4e >>> Author: __vic <[email protected]> >>> Date: 2017-12-13 10:41:32 +0300 >>> >>> Merge branch 'generic' into posix >>> >>> commit f484f4e8aae32041ba56bdce12d1efd8491e94d5 >>> Merge: 86b848a b9bbbe6 >>> Author: __vic <[email protected]> >>> Date: 2017-12-12 17:35:10 +0300 >>> >>> waitable_event, thread, mutex >>> $ git log --follow include/__vic/mutex.h >>> $ >>> >>> Why --follow makes git produce truncated history for file that >>> wasn't >>> renamed? >>> >>> My repository is available here >>> https://github.com/2underscores-vic/__vic >> >> I just briefly looked at this. It's because all changes to the >> relevant >> file are in merge commits. If you run the "log" with "--stat" you'll >> see >> no output. >> >> Something in the --follow machinery takes the same shortcut on >> merges >> and doesn't consider them.
