Subject: Re: bug#27953: vc-region-history doesn't follow renames

From: Kyle Meyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:05:52 -0400

Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 2017-08-04 19:21, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Indeed, `git log -p --follow -L5,25:file.c' doesn't work.  But `git
>>> log -p --follow -L5,25:file.c file.c' does work (note the extra mention of
>>> the file name).
>> 
>> Hmm... what's the difference between
>> 
>>     git log -p -L5,25:file.c
>> and
>>     git log -p -L5,25:file.c file.c
>
> The second one allows --follow; the first one doesn't.  I don't know what differences they may be beyond that :/

As Andreas mentioned, even though git doesn't throw an error, giving a
pathspec with -L is documented as invalid.

But you shouldn't need to add --follow here.  Renames should be followed
by default when -L is used.  (At least, that's what I see using Git
v2.13.3.)

-- 
Kyle