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Subject: Reusing changes after renaming a file (Re: [PATCH 5/6] sequencer:
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Hm, I was actually thinking of a much less ambitious helper that would
> kick in when the heuristic correlation between two files is above a
> certain threshold.

Doesn't that already work?  For example:

	git cherry-pick -Xrename-threshold=50 foo