Merged repo for protocol headers? Why are they split?

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:44:53 +0100
Daniel Martin <consume.noise at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 November 2017 at 15:01, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 28 November 2017 at 12:38, Daniel Martin <consume.noise at gmail.com> wrote:  
> >> On 27 November 2017 at 23:18, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:  
> >>> have you looked at subtree merges? Keeps the repo history for each merged
> >>> repository and the one from the top-level repository. And it forces you to
> >>> merge into a directory anyway, so that's a win right there.  
> >>
> >> Oh? No, didn't knew that before. But, tested it:
> >> $ git remote add -f randrproto
> >> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/randrproto
> >> $ git subtree add --prefix=randrproto/ randrproto master
> >>
> >> The history in the toplevel looks good. But, log -p shows the original
> >> paths in the commits. Okay, it doesn't rewrite history. I can deal
> >> with that.
> >> Though,
> >> $ git log (--graph) randrproto/randr.h
> >> just shows one commit from the subtree add.  
> >
> > git log --follow -- randrproto/randr.h  
> 
> Nope, doesn't work, even if I'm in randrproto/ and omit the path.
> But, it works if I'm in the toplevel and omit the path. O.o?

       --follow
           Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames (works
           only for a single file).

You tried with a single file?


Thanks,
pq
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