Follow renames when looking for the creation of a file

Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <[email protected]>
2026-09-12 13:19:55 +00:00 · 2020-03-26 22:50:11 +01:00
parent 13dc634282
commit 98a53aa399
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -260,7 +260,9 @@ class EntryFileSortKey:

        Return None if the file was never checked into git.
        """
-        hashes = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'log', '--format=%H', '--', filename])
+        hashes = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'log', '--format=%H',
+                                          '--follow',
+                                          '--', filename])
        m = re.search(b'(.+)$', hashes)
        if not m:
            # The git output is empty. This means that the file was