I cry for the years of lost got blame history. It sure must suck to delve into a...

Degorath · 2024-12-23T15:07:01 1734966421

That's not necessarily the case, depending on how their pipeline was set up and what their VCS supports.

For example, you can always `git mv` the Java file to the Kotlin file and only then transform it, which keeps your history.

yearolinuxdsktp · 2024-12-27T00:38:22 1735259902

That keeps the history but not the annotations of the lines. Git blame will shows basically all lines as last changed by Kotlin transform.