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Cool - Thx for sharing and your very good post!

I prefer to see the chosen templates and partials as comments in the html.
Include e.g.
{{ <!-- _default/terms.html --> | safeHTML }}

or

{{ `<!-- partials/head.meta.html -->` | safeHTML }}

in the templates and partials.

To keep track in the blocks:

{{- block "main" . }}
  {{ `<!-- block main _default/baseof.html  -->` | safeHTML }}
  {{- partial "main.blog.date.html"         . -}}
  {{- partial "main.toc.single.html"        . -}}
  {{ `<!-- back in _default/baseof.html  -->` | safeHTML }}
  {{- .Content -}}
{{- end }}

I had no chance to figure out the lookup order without tracing it via those comments…

working examples:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/it-gro/hugo-theme-w3css-basic/master/layouts/_default/terms.html
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/it-gro/hugo-theme-w3css-basic/master/layouts/partials/head.meta.html
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/it-gro/hugo-theme-w3css-basic/master/layouts/_default/baseof.html

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