Manual CVS file manipulation resulting in forced git history update

Sometimes after the commit:
    commit 442961ae990019740c1d5c51fcecd31a7d5898cb
    Author: ragge <>
    Date:   Mon Mar 7 02:00:02 2016 +0000

        new date 20160307

The file mip/compat.c is moved to create common/compat.c,
and this affected the history for a whole lot of files
starting with this commit (in old-* branches):
    commit 5452cef558bab66135b929f4d064054a16d3d285
    Author: ragge <>
    Date:   Thu Sep 20 12:52:15 2007 +0000

        Oops, forgot this one.

    diff --git a/mip/compat.c b/mip/compat.c
    new file mode 100644
    index 0000000..7050888
    --- /dev/null
    +++ b/mip/compat.c

Which is now:
    commit 616996becf53088703a3fa89896c395a888f922f
    Author: ragge <>
    Date:   Thu Sep 20 12:52:15 2007 +0000

        Oops, forgot this one.

    diff --git a/common/compat.c b/common/compat.c
    new file mode 100644
    index 0000000..7050888
    --- /dev/null
    +++ b/common/compat.c
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