GNU bug report logs - #8756
23.3; vc-git.el doesn't use --follow argument in vc-git-print-log

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Steinar Bang <sb <at> dod.no>

Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 20:28:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 19045

Found in versions 23.3, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Dmitry Dzhus <dima <at> dzhus.org>
Cc: 8756 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8756: vc-git.el doesn't use --follow argument in vc-git-print-log
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 20:48:28 +0200

On 03.11.2019 16:32, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> A new option vc-git-print-log-follow was added in 2016, so I think this
> is covered now, and I'm closing this bug report.

The resulting solution still has the problems described in this bug 
report here, 8 years ago:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8756#11

(In short, inspecting revisions where the file had a different name 
leads to bad results).
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 198 days ago.

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