Re: Git history is fractured for documentation files

[Alexis]

Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:

> I was researching the history of some Emacs documentation 
> files. I got back as far as
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/doc/emacs/emacs.texi?ofs=200
>
> which ends with the entry
>
> 2007-09-06 Move here from ../../man
>
> which is
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/doc/emacs/emacs.texi?id=8cf51b2c2f18417403f27fdc215f369af887d89b
>
> How would I go back further in time than this to find the 
> previous revision of the file? I'm sure that revisions earlier 
> than September 2007 are recorded. Doesn't git have some way of 
> deducing when a file has been renamed?

Is the --follow option to `git log` what you're after? The git-log 
man page says:

   "--follow 
        Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames 
        (works only for a single file)."


Alexis.