From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:36:53 GMT
Subject: Re: How to split file with its history?
Message-ID: <20190827103653.GB8571@szeder.dev>
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