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Message-ID: <20141210095949.GA17623@localhost>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:59:49 +0100
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] MFD for v3.19
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@...nel.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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