[Kde-scm-interest] Re: git repo of kdelibs

[Santi Béjar]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Torgny Nyblom <kde at nyblom.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 11.59.28 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:16:04AM +0100, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
>> > but "git log" has trouble following history due to a bug that makes it
>> > loose parent commits somehow.
>>
>> git log has history simplification enabled by default. are you sure you
>> aren't seeing the effect of that?
>
> Sure and sure
>
> I use "git log -C -C --follow" and that should follow history across renames
> and copies even if the copy source was not touched in the current commit.

Whenever you provide a path to "git log" git simplifies the history,
i.e. those commits not touching the path or those merge parents with
"repeated" changes. It has nothing to do with --follow or -C.

Can you try with --full-history?

> Also I've seen others have the same issue on unrellated projects but so far
> noone has had the time to produce a minimal example of the breakage.

Even if you don't have a minimal example, but you "only" have an
example using a public repository you can report it to the git mailing
list.

BTW, which is the problematic file and the hidden commit?

Regards,
Santi