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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] log: add log.follow config option
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:31 -0400
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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.