Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/12/2018 02:46 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> RS> If you'd like this change to be made, recognize the problem and fix
> RS> it. Implement a kind of diff that reliably gives the correct list of
> RS> entities changed -- at least for C and Emacs Lisp -- and then I'll
> RS> agree to this change for Emacs Lisp.
>
> Could you provide a reference to the previous discussion or summarize
> it? I couldn't find it.

The discussion has come up multiple times. A recent lengthy iteration
started here:

https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-standards/2017-11/msg00005.html

and continued for months. I think RMS's request is buried in that thread
somewhere. Nobody has implemented the request, as far as I know.