Re: [GIT PULL] MFD for v3.19

[Johan Hovold]

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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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