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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org,
	"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Osterried <thomas@osterried.de>
Subject: Re: Driver graveyard
Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 17:33:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0AH5eou3vJxc+hH36giqjaivUeZL2heBVDSO8E+mCyMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ym/2U0elJvJM3hmN@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 5:18 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> On a side note, navigating removals is something git doesn't make easy:
> git blame will tell when a line has been added (or modified), but
> figuring out when a line has been removed is more difficult. Or is it
> one of git's features that I simply don't know about ?

I find 'git log -p' to almost always be more useful than 'git blame'
when trying to
find out what happened to a file.

What I tend to do is to start with 'git grep $KEYWORD v3.0' (or
2.6.12, 4.0, 5.0 etc)
to see what file mentioned something, and then 'git log -p --
$FILENAME' to see the
commits leading up to the removal.

One bit I find missing though is for 'git log --follow' to track
renames from $FILENAME
to a new location, rather than following where it came from.

       Arnd

      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-02 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-02 14:18 Driver graveyard Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-02 14:29 ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-05-02 15:10   ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-02 15:15     ` Juergen Gross
2022-05-02 15:18   ` Laurent Pinchart
2022-05-02 15:33     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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