Right, if you rename a file and then change its content without committing it, it doesn't know. Clearly that's bad practice in a multi-user setting because you're going to break all subsequent merges.

However, if you just move or rename a file, git does recognize that, and it doesn't require any manually annotation.

Lore needs you to tell it that you're moving or renaming. It's not the end of the world, but it's a real pain if other tools are operating on the file. You will need to go back and manually annotate those operations if you want it to preserve the relationships.