[bonzini]

That's not possible, because files don't have ancestors in git. Each commit's tree is tracked independently and copy/move is just something that's detected via heuristics.

[froh]

I meanwhile understood that you can commit a copy of a file and then edit both, and then the ancestry tracking options to git log resolve the two split parts ancestry just fine.

[account42]

But those heuristics could be better than they are now so that a git log <file> will show the shared history for both copies.