On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 01:33:18PM -0800, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hmm...sure, if the file is deleted on the only relevant branch through
> history...but what if there were another branch where it weren't
> deleted? What does git blame do then?
>
> In other words, do NOT restore the file as biswar
Jeff King writes:
> You can feed a set of revisions to git-blame with the "-S" option, but I
> don't offhand know how it handles diffs (I think it would have to still
> diff each commit against its parent, since history is non-linear, and a
> list is inherently linear).
It would diff each commit
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:48 PM Jeff King wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:07:00PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote:
>
> > Thanks! Strangely git log --follow does work.
>
> I suspect it would work even without --follow. When you limit a log
> traversal with a pathspec, like:
>
> git log foo
>
biswaranjan panda writes:
> I have the following scenario:
>
> On a branch A, I deleted a file foo.txt and committed the change. Then
> I did a bunch of other changes.
> Now I want to undelete foo.txt.
[...]
> I would appreciate if anyone knows how to preserve git blame history.
Provided you d
>You can feed a set of revisions to git-blame with the "-S" option, but I
>don't offhand know how it handles diffs (I think it would have to still
>diff each commit against its parent, since history is non-linear, and a
>list is inherently linear). You might want to experiment with that.
>Other th
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:50:57PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote:
> Thanks Jeff and Bryan! However, I am curious that if there were a way
> to tell git blame to skip a commit (the one which added the file again
> and maybe the one which deleted it originally) while it walks back
> through history
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:26 PM Jeff King wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:07:00PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote:
>>
> >> Thanks! Strangely git log --follow does work.
>>
>> I suspect it would work even without --follow. When you limit a log
>> traversal with a pathspec, like:
>>
>> git
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:26 PM Jeff King wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:07:00PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote:
>
> > Thanks! Strangely git log --follow does work.
>
> I suspect it would work even without --follow. When you limit a log
> traversal with a pathspec, like:
>
> git log foo
>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:07:00PM -0800, biswaranjan panda wrote:
> Thanks! Strangely git log --follow does work.
I suspect it would work even without --follow. When you limit a log
traversal with a pathspec, like:
git log foo
that is not about following some continuous stream of content, bu
Thanks! Strangely git log --follow does work.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:55 PM Bryan Turner wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:49 PM biswaranjan panda
> wrote:
> >
> > I have the following scenario:
> >
> > On a branch A, I deleted a file foo.txt and committed the change. Then
> > I did a bunch
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:49 PM biswaranjan panda
wrote:
>
> I have the following scenario:
>
> On a branch A, I deleted a file foo.txt and committed the change. Then
> I did a bunch of other changes.
> Now I want to undelete foo.txt.
>
> One way is to checkout a separate branch B where the file i
I have the following scenario:
On a branch A, I deleted a file foo.txt and committed the change. Then
I did a bunch of other changes.
Now I want to undelete foo.txt.
One way is to checkout a separate branch B where the file is present.
Then checkout A. Then do
git checkout B -- path_to_file
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