Why does git log with --follow and --reverse return only last commit?

Question

I wanted to view all the commits of a file from the beginning in reverse I ran

git log --reverse [file]

And it worked as expected. but for a

Answer 1

This seems to be known bug in git. The only work around I can see is if you know what the file was named before, pass it along with the current file to the command, i.e.

 git log --reverse --follow -- oldfilename currentfilename

Edit: the following will do what you want:

git log --name-only --pretty="format:"  --follow <filename> | sort -u | xargs git log --reverse --