One problem with that though is that smudge and clean are not used in rename det...

ironmagma 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git A...

One problem with that though is that smudge and clean are not used in rename detection. Git purposely skips running these filters to detect renames for performance. There are quite a lot of other issues with smudge/clean too though.