No Direct Way to Trace a Changed File Back to Its Originating Commit in a Squash-Merged PR
Developers investigating a specific file change in a multi-commit pull request have no built-in way to jump from the Files changed view to the exact commit(s) that touched that file, especially once commits are squash-merged and original history is lost. This forces manual commit-by-commit scrolling or git blame archaeology to find the source of a change.
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