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| It's unfortunate that git-annex sorta defeats git's rename detection.
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| When an annexed file is moved to a different directory (specifically, a
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| directory that is shallower or deeper than the old directory),
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| the symlink often has to change. And so git log cannot --follow back
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| through the rename history, since all it has to go on is that symlink,
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| which it effectively sees as a one line file containing the symlink target.
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| One way to fix this might be to do the `git annex fix` *after* the rename
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| is committed. This would mean that a commit would result in new staged
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| changes for another commit, which is perhaps startling behavior.
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| The other way to fix it is to stop using symlinks, see [[todo/smudge]].
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| [[!tag confirmed]]
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