On Thursday 07 June 2007 14:41:41 Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:23:04AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Thursday 07 June 2007 06:12:14 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > I, for one, would welcome something similar to svn cp and svn mv, > > > which allows you to copy and rename files (I'm thinking patches) > > > while preserving change history. > > > > Could we better frame this as "I wish our SCM would allow for renaming > > and/or copying source controlled files to new names, while preserving the > > recorded history of the file within the SCM." ? (I just don't want to > > see a lot of requests be tied to a particular SCM or another, just pure > > features. > > FWIW one could rephrase it with "Every SCM, but CVS". This is a CVS > limitation that any willing successor has fixed, I don't think any of > the systems we're thinking about has this flaw. Well, hg cannot do this yet. It has a function to copy a file, but all it really does is hg rm <oldfile>; hg add <newfile>. yes, this is dumb. :( -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
Attachment:
pgpX2TLpXT3lB.pgp
Description: PGP signature
-- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
