Let's say you have commits that change a file (and looking at the commit details show you the changes, etc). Now, when you do a git log you see them, but when you say git log that.file these commits don't show up? This is for you.
The reason is that the file got deleted deleted/re-added/renamed (any or all of those).
Instead of ...
git log master -- some.file
... you need to say:
git log --follow master -- some.file
Then your commits will show up.
Note that tig also understands --follow.
Kudos to Julien for pointing this out.
Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2012-01-16 08:00)