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		Degorath on Dec 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin 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 on Dec 27, 2024 [–]

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

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