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From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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On Nov 01 2017, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Sure, but it is still a tricky thing. Imagine
>
> - A1 - B1 - A2 - B2 - B3
>
> where all the B* commits have the blob. Do you really want to report B1
> rather than B2 as the commit introducing the blob? (I would prefer B2...)

What if B3 renames or copies the blob?

Andreas.

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