Re: Semantics of change IDs (Re: Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer)

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 11:02:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > We designed not to etch such wrong renames/copoies in stone by
> > recording them at the commit time.  Instead we compare the before
> > and after image to intuit the _intention_ of what the user wanted to
> > do _when_ you _ask_ (i.e. when you run "git diff" or "git log").
>
> Well, I suspect more likely that Linus didn't want to have some sort of
> inode number nor some sort of explicit rename/copy indication as a
> significant simplification that allowed Git to get shipped sooner.  I'm
> not questioning that nor trying to litigate rename/copy.