On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:03:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > It is neither but if I have to pick one between the two, it is much > closer to the former than the latter. The primary source of this is > that we have only *one* pathspec given to the diff machinery, but in > order to implement your ideal "find harder", you'd need *two*. That > is, one set of paths for which you are interested in their origin, > and the other set that you allow the machinery to consider as possible > origins. Since we can only give one pathspec machinery, that one > pathspec is used to specify both of these sets.
How does tihs compare to `--follow`? With that knob active the machinery indeed uses the whole repository for finding renames and/or copies. Is this the only exception then? Take care, Eckhard
