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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> This has come up a bunch of times. I think that the thing git itself
> should be doing is to lean into the same notion that we use for tracking
> renames. I.e. we don't, we analyze history after-the-fact and spot the
> renames for you.

I've never been a big fan of that quality of git because it is
inherently unreliable.