Can Git track the movement of a single function from 1 file to another? How?

This functionality is provided through git blame -C <file>.

The -C option drives git into trying to find matches between addition or deletion of chunks of text in the file being reviewed and the files modified in the same changesets. Additional -C -C, or -C -C -C extend the search.

Try for yourself in a test repo with git blame -C and you’ll see that the block of code that you just moved is originated in the original file where it belonged to.

From the git help blame manual page:

The origin of lines is automatically followed across whole-file renames (currently there is no option to turn the rename-following off). To follow lines moved from one file to another, or to follow lines that were copied and pasted from another file, etc., see the -C and -M options.

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