From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Git history is fractured for documentation files Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:33:06 +1000 Message-ID: <87k2spl6al.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440124415 8220 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2015 02:33:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 02:33:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 04:33:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSc91-0000y2-T7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 04:33:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSc91-0003Vv-2m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSc8q-0003VX-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSc8n-0003wm-Do for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::235]:36194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSc8n-0003wh-6P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: by pawq9 with SMTP id q9so41241654paw.3 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; bh=/+MXjjOutOgMFZlZowqnwuE3hXBoyX99iXpcCcqRLA0=; b=IZPl2dcYOWQRQ9yfTrOUWT7JsT2OgrtuoJO0aXt+kp+Ju5HOLvItslrwI2ZOstczJI L8vm3E3QobDQJ8FsU07uh5YQcvxBXZFi8N5+zPpTgQZ1wCNlwvg4EwVyqHXoxefFGfAz VNChbpUOFBUa1hLQvCrqu6uetqAAvSaEiIX5opmS3wSvQEuBLp+5uw27vfwONC9jHdbA 7uNgaDWw6E1cEN6nrrQ3rZsklL/QJgPOX+9iPOx9mD7kGlKAqHy+iAtwpf/DZf6/Jn/B 5BoAbOCGI+idiHbFB6MEu9ADyPx/PovmiIeFTbdEQFBK1QOyYZYbGZTkzCRycFR5wrYx MDeA== X-Received: by 10.66.244.230 with SMTP id xj6mr12633231pac.53.1440124391223; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (CPE-58-161-15-29.cqqy2.win.bigpond.net.au. [58.161.15.29]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id fa1sm5794480pbb.35.2015.08.20.19.33.09 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:33:10 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::235 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106737 Archived-At: Gavin Smith 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.