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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:02:03 -0500
> 
> I look at the feature's code, dig in with vc-region-history to get the
> corresponding commit, and that gives me the date.

That will only give you the latest change there.  For something before
that, you are back to the original problem.

> vc-region-history is almost always the first thing I use when it comes
> to "commit/changelog" info.  And that's also where the subject of this
> thread hurts (I sometimes resort to making a "git worktree add" to get
> the revision before the file was moved, and use vc-region-history on
> that to see the rest of the history).

I find all of those needed, but I also find ChangeLog to be of help.