Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el)

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/08/2018 11:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> there won't be any reasonable
> way of finding out when that change was made, except by finding a
> machine with a reasonably fast Internet connection and/or where
> there's already a cloned Git repository (or some other similar option
> that is not always available in Real Life).

Nowadays, I would not consider doing nontrivial development on Emacs 
without having a Git repository available. (This does not require an 
Internet connection, just a copy of the repository; I commonly work this 
way.) These days, serious hacking without the repository would be like 
hacking without the ChangeLog files would have been in the old days. 
It'd be like hacking with one arm tied behind one's back, and it's not 
something that we need to cater to.