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Re: How to split file with its history?

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 27, 2019, 10:36 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 01:10:02PM +0300, Konstantin wrote:
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> 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
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