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On 28/04/2022 16.34, John Yates wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 4:38 AM Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de> wrote:
>>
>> Ggtags won't be able to tell if files have been renamed or added, I am
>> afraid. (it might notice deletions, though)
> 
> That is crucial.  A very large part of my work is untangling
> decades of cruft (including migration from C to C++).
> I do a tremendous amount of refactoring: moving and
> renaming files.  I need a scheme that can handle such
> churn gracefully.

Actually, as Leo has pointed out, the gtags program should be able to 
notice *unless* you are using a fixed list of files like me.