Re: Source code history lost in "clearing all contents" + "updating master branch, to have same contents as..." commits

[Vladimir Sitnikov]

Gary, I provided the link in the original email:

https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/blame/master/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/DocumentCall.java

compare it with a much better one (pay attention to commit ids to the left
of the line numbers):

https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/blame/xalan-j_2_7_1_maint/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/DocumentCall.java

You can try the same locally:
git blame src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/DocumentCall.java

In master branch the command prints "356ce496f (Mukul Gandhi 2023-04-14"
for every line of the file.

Vladimir