[oe] Loss of all package history following the recipe rename.

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:38 AM, John Willis
<John.Willis at distant-earth.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> After kergoth took the time to point out that I was just looking at this
> 'the wrong way' and not 'the GIT way' I think the mail can safely be
> disregarded ;-).
>
> It still does not change the fact that the behavior of 'git log' gave me a
> real panic moment but at least nothing is lost if your happy to dig (or
> rather use git log --follow, ok, next time I promise to read the man page
> before panicking ;-), I am just used to --follow functionality being a
> default behavior).

Re: default behavior, I'm not entirely certain, but the 'diff.renames'
git config parameter seems promising.  Try running:
git config diff.renames true

I'm not sure if git log --follow is the same thing as git diff-tree
-M, but it probably is, since git log is essentially git rev-list |
git diff-tree.
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Chris Larson
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clarson at mvista dot com
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