Hi ! Looking at some of the fixes tags in linux-stable e.g. commit 27d231c0c63b -> :pnfs_alloc_ds_commits_list:fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c Fixes: a9901899b649 inspecting the history of this function shows linux-stable$ git log -L:pnfs_alloc_ds_commits_list:fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c | grep "^commit " commit 27d231c0c63bb619997a24bab85d54d90ca71110 commit a9901899b649dc80ef75c14d6d78059cae14def7 commit 0cb1f6df8a63b51f276f94d94957d7a7ca757667 commit f54bcf2ecee982da47c2baf8bd87fd9ad9984651 or: commit 9b8b17541f13 Fixes: e26733e0d0ec gives me: linux-stable$ git log -L:calculate_high_delay:mm/memcontrol.c | grep "^commit " commit 9b8b17541f13809d06f6f873325305ddbb760e3e commit e26733e0d0ec6798eca93daa300bc3f43616127f commit d397a45fc741c80c32a14e2de008441e9976f50c commit 0e4b01df865935007bd712cbc8e7299005b28894 commit f7e1cb6ec51b041335b5ad4dd7aefb37a56d79a6 commit b23afb93d317c65cef553b804f08dec8a7a0f7e1 the initial bug introducing commit and the fix commit are visible But then there are other cases like: commit 26c5d78c976c which fixed up get_fs_type in fs/filesystems.c Fixes: 41124db869b7 commit 26c5d78c976c <snip> - WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name); + if (!fs) + pr_warn_once("request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", + len, name); <snip> Fixes: 41124db869b7 <snip> - if (!fs && (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) + if (!fs && (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) { fs = __get_fs_type(name, len); + WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name); + } <snip> which seem to be correct - but git log does not display them ? linux-stable$ git log -L:get_fs_type:fs/filesystems.c | grep "^commit " commit d8e9650dff48055057253ca30933605bd7d0733b commit 79c0b2df79eb56fc71e54c75cd7fb3acf84370f9 commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 I see neither of the fix nor the fixed commit ? This is on a Debian 10.3 with git version 2.20.1 It does not seem to be a rename issue - so I'm a bit lost on this one Is this a wrong expectation on my side - or am I using git in some wrong way here ? thx! hofrat