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Best is when there are many commits adding / removing files. Since Git doesn't track renames it has to guess if it was a rename based on file similarity. Sometimes you have particularly cursed commits adding/removing files where cherry picks done later get applied to wrong files.
End up having this problem all the time with Chromium in particular. They also have these files with a whole bunch of similar extreme nesting in them and when something gets moved too far or was outright removed, Git decides to apply the changes to the completely wrong place.
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Projects with license headers and programming language boilerplate make these problems so much worse because Git thinks any time a small file was deleted and another small file was added, it was a rename. Fairly often just manually redo commits because Git is worse than nothing.
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