Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:59:49 +0100 | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] MFD for v3.19 |
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:44:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> So when you do "git log" with a pathname specifier, git obviously no > longer shows you all the history. In particular, it shows you the > relevant history for just that file. And by "relevant", it not only > skips commits that don't change the file, but it also does merge > simplification: if it hits a merge, and all changes to the file came > from one side of the merge, it will ignore the other side.
Thanks for the explanation.
Johan
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