diff --git a/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py b/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py
--- a/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py
+++ b/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py
@@ -159,7 +159,6 @@
     scmutil,
     smartset,
     streamclone,
-    templatekw,
     util,
 )
 from . import (
@@ -557,7 +556,7 @@
     extensions.wrapfunction(dispatch, 'runcommand', runcommand)
 
     # disappointing hacks below
-    templatekw.getrenamedfn = getrenamedfn
+    scmutil.getrenamedfn = getrenamedfn
     extensions.wrapfunction(revset, 'filelog', filelogrevset)
     revset.symbols['filelog'] = revset.filelog
     extensions.wrapfunction(cmdutil, 'walkfilerevs', walkfilerevs)
diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
     state as statemod,
     streamclone,
     tags as tagsmod,
-    templatekw,
     ui as uimod,
     util,
     wireprotoserver,
@@ -3884,7 +3883,7 @@
         endrev = None
         if revs:
             endrev = revs.max() + 1
-        getrenamed = templatekw.getrenamedfn(repo, endrev=endrev)
+        getrenamed = scmutil.getrenamedfn(repo, endrev=endrev)
 
     ui.pager('log')
     displayer = logcmdutil.changesetdisplayer(ui, repo, opts, differ,
diff --git a/mercurial/scmutil.py b/mercurial/scmutil.py
--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py
@@ -1191,6 +1191,37 @@
         for new, old in renames.iteritems():
             wctx.copy(old, new)
 
+def getrenamedfn(repo, endrev=None):
+    rcache = {}
+    if endrev is None:
+        endrev = len(repo)
+
+    def getrenamed(fn, rev):
+        '''looks up all renames for a file (up to endrev) the first
+        time the file is given. It indexes on the changerev and only
+        parses the manifest if linkrev != changerev.
+        Returns rename info for fn at changerev rev.'''
+        if fn not in rcache:
+            rcache[fn] = {}
+            fl = repo.file(fn)
+            for i in fl:
+                lr = fl.linkrev(i)
+                renamed = fl.renamed(fl.node(i))
+                rcache[fn][lr] = renamed and renamed[0]
+                if lr >= endrev:
+                    break
+        if rev in rcache[fn]:
+            return rcache[fn][rev]
+
+        # If linkrev != rev (i.e. rev not found in rcache) fallback to
+        # filectx logic.
+        try:
+            return repo[rev][fn].copysource()
+        except error.LookupError:
+            return None
+
+    return getrenamed
+
 def dirstatecopy(ui, repo, wctx, src, dst, dryrun=False, cwd=None):
     """Update the dirstate to reflect the intent of copying src to dst. For
     different reasons it might not end with dst being marked as copied from src.
diff --git a/mercurial/templatekw.py b/mercurial/templatekw.py
--- a/mercurial/templatekw.py
+++ b/mercurial/templatekw.py
@@ -104,37 +104,6 @@
         latesttags[rev] = pdate, pdist + 1, ptag
     return latesttags[rev]
 
-def getrenamedfn(repo, endrev=None):
-    rcache = {}
-    if endrev is None:
-        endrev = len(repo)
-
-    def getrenamed(fn, rev):
-        '''looks up all renames for a file (up to endrev) the first
-        time the file is given. It indexes on the changerev and only
-        parses the manifest if linkrev != changerev.
-        Returns rename info for fn at changerev rev.'''
-        if fn not in rcache:
-            rcache[fn] = {}
-            fl = repo.file(fn)
-            for i in fl:
-                lr = fl.linkrev(i)
-                renamed = fl.renamed(fl.node(i))
-                rcache[fn][lr] = renamed and renamed[0]
-                if lr >= endrev:
-                    break
-        if rev in rcache[fn]:
-            return rcache[fn][rev]
-
-        # If linkrev != rev (i.e. rev not found in rcache) fallback to
-        # filectx logic.
-        try:
-            return repo[rev][fn].copysource()
-        except error.LookupError:
-            return None
-
-    return getrenamed
-
 def getlogcolumns():
     """Return a dict of log column labels"""
     _ = pycompat.identity  # temporarily disable gettext
@@ -343,7 +312,7 @@
     copies = context.resource(mapping, 'revcache').get('copies')
     if copies is None:
         if 'getrenamed' not in cache:
-            cache['getrenamed'] = getrenamedfn(repo)
+            cache['getrenamed'] = scmutil.getrenamedfn(repo)
         copies = []
         getrenamed = cache['getrenamed']
         for fn in ctx.files():