On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Kai Blin <kai@samba.org> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
>
> in an effort to make Samba development easier, we're trying to merge the
> Samba3 and Samba4 branches into a single branch. In order to do so, we need
> to rename the "source" directories both Samba 3 and Samba 4 have (we're
> planning to use source3 and source4).
>
> Unfortunately, the directories are big enough that git log stops to track the
> renamed files, so e.g. git log ./samba3 does not show the samba3 history. The
> history is not lost, of course, but it's way less intuitive to get it.

You can try setting diff.renamelimit to 0 in your ~/.gitconfig.  See
Linus's email here for a similar situation in the kernel:
http://lwn.net/Articles/292948/

Thanks,
Tarmigan
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