That's just the thing, git doesn't give a shit about files internally, it tracks the content instead and uses heuristics to figure out the file metadata. Files

That's just the thing, git doesn't give a shit about files internally, it tracks the content instead and uses heuristics to figure out the file metadata. Files and their artifacts do show up everywhere in git's UIs, because noone's found a better model yet of exposing the content to the user.