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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Ed Avis <ed.avis@qmaw.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git log --name-only improvement: show old file name in rename
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:18:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25ca66fb-82bc-7278-90e9-5e1999593068@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsgf1i46l.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

@Ed
On 12/06/2020 00:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ed Avis <ed.avis@qmaw.com> writes:
>
>> The git-log manual page says
>>
>>        --name-only
>>            Show only names of changed files.
>>
>> But when a file has been renamed, only the new name is printed, not the 
>> old.  I think it would be more useful and more correct to print both 
>> names. 
Was this a concern that the manual did not clarify which name (old or
new) was being reported?
Philip

> It is just you who thinks it would be more useful.
>
> Scripts written by people over the last 10 years that expect to see
> new name would certainly hate to see two names start appearing
> there.
>
> Perhaps you can use --summary at the same time?


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-12 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-11 11:19 git log --name-only improvement: show old file name in rename Ed Avis
2020-06-11 23:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-12 14:18   ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2020-06-12 17:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-15  7:36       ` Ed Avis

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