Re: How to keep log history when renaming and changing simultaneously

Jacob Keller [off-list ref] writes:

Unfortunately I don't have a ready link to the message, but there is a
very good post from early on in Git's development where Linus explains
why Git does not store rename and copy information in the history.

One of the most important message in the list archive, gmane:217 aka

http://public-inbox.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@ppc970.osdl.org/