Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
The identical file is pretty theoretical, yes. But if it tries to deduce origins of parts of files which were modified before commit, then it becomes more plausible. I noticed that you said that it "rarely" happens, rather than using a stronger term. :-)
That's just my cautious me with words. "Rarely" in this case means, that it has not been observed yet, and is unlikely to be ever observed, yet does not have an absolute zero probability.
Will you at least be able to see what guess git made before you commit? Although I'm not sure what you're supposed to do if you see that git guess wrong if you say that the only way to override the guess is to rewrite git...
Git always stores correctly, since the repository doesn't record the guesses, as Martin explained.