From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Am able to delete a file with no trace in the log Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20090602213439.GA7584@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vfxeidqoz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtz2x6mor.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jeff King , Graham Perks , Git List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 03 23:27:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MBxzH-00085Y-9r for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:27:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754803AbZFCV0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:26:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754295AbZFCV0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:26:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57071 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754623AbZFCV0v (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:26:51 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n53LQhNK030432 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:26:44 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n53LQgvH002389; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:26:42 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <7vtz2x6mor.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.468 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I realize that "--simplify-merges" would show that kind of deletion. Yes. Or just "--full-history". Of course, it would then not show any _diff_, so even then you're still kind of in the dark, if what you were looking for was "when did this file go away". Doing a "git log -c --stat" would show the creation, but not the deletion of the file. Linus