Re: Feature request: provide a persistent IDs on a commit

From: Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>
Date: Jul 21, 2022, 16:18 UTC
Message-ID: <87a692e8vj.fsf@vps.thesusis.net>
In-Reply-To: <220718.86ilnuw8jo.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

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.

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