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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:20:18 -0500
> 
> > from Git history.  One example is establishing whether some change was
> > in Emacs XX.YY or in a later version.
> 
> FWIW, I generally do that by comparing the change to the actual code of
> Emacs-XX.YY.

How do you do that when XX.YY is not known in advance?  Check every
version of Emacs from the last one back?  That's not really efficient.