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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.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 13:38:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436463511.4542.27.camel@twopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqegkhw8hf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-09 17:38 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 [this message]
2015-07-09 17:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-10 17:53         ` David Turner
2015-07-10 21:03           ` Junio C Hamano

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