linux-kernel - Re: git/cscope with x86 merge

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Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:10:22 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git/cscope with x86 merge

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 12:36:17PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 
> > I pulled next branch of git and applied your patch.
> > 
> > When running
> >  	git log --follow -B arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
> > 
> > I got no output at all (in a newly pulled linux kernel dir).
> 
> Try with "-p".
> 
> It's possible (nay, likely) that "next" has the bug where "--follow" 
> without a patch generating thing (-p or --stat or one of the other flags 
> that enable diffs) doesn't work at all.

Yep - that did the trick, thanks.

	Sam
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