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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: Konstantin <kostix87@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to split file with its history?
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:36:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190827103653.GB8571@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAObSod2jhDjq=Fw2JtNMsK53HxXSf3n6K5XacHQBH00L49mNpQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 01:10:02PM +0300, Konstantin wrote:
> currently we have one code file with deep history.
> As code file grown it is necessary to split it.
> but this action will drop history for the new extracted file.
> how can i split one big code file to small files and save its history
> for the "blame" action?

'git blame -C' can detect lines moved between files.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-blame.txt--Cltnumgt


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27 10:10 How to split file with its history? Konstantin
2019-08-27 10:36 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2019-08-27 10:59   ` Konstantin

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